The police response to the attack on Nancy Pelosi's husband was harsher than usual.
Right-wing talking points accuse the Democrats of being soft on crime.
According to the US Capitol police, there has been a rise in threats against US lawmakers.
The police response to the attack on Nancy Pelosi's husband was criticized by Fox News host Jesse Watters.
Pelosi's husband, Paul Pelosi, was attacked with a hammer by a person who broke into the house. He is expected to recover quickly.
People are hit with hammers. People are attacked. Watters said that a lot of the time they're out on bail and charged with simple assault.
San Francisco Police Chief William Scott told reporters that the suspect is David DePape and that he faces several charges.
The host of Fox News didn't defend DePape, who he said looked mentally ill, but he referenced popular right-wing talking points accusing the Democrats of being soft on crime.
He said that the Democrats in the media ignored the crime wave and only covered it when Nancy Pelosi's husband was attacked.
Watters wanted to see the alleged attacker treated the same as if he attacked other people.
We see people assault people with all kinds of weapons and then released the next day. He said that he didn't know why the victim was so high-profile that the guy was being treated differently.
The attacker shouted "Where is Nancy?" when he broke into the home, according to several sources.
Some of the people who banged on the doors of her office while shouting, "Where's Nancy?" were compared by President Joe Biden to the people who attacked the Capitol in January of 2011.
According to the US Capitol police, there has been a rise in threats against US lawmakers.
The homes of Pelosi and McConnell were vandalized earlier this year.
According to a study by the Anti-Defamation League, right-wing extremists committed 75% of the political murders in the US in the past decade.
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