A video has emerged online showing the moment Mesa County, Colorado, clerk and fervent MAGA fanatic Tina Peters is being arrested by Grand Junction officers for resisting a search warrant, multiple local news outlets reported Tuesday.
Citing the arrest affidavit, Denver local station Channel 9 reported that Peters was taken into custody by Grand Junction police officers who were assisting local prosecutors with an active investigation.
“Officers were serving a warrant to seize Peters’ iPad on which she is suspected of improperly recording a court hearing involving her deputy clerk, Belinda Knisley, after a judge prohibited recording in the courtroom,” the station reported Tuesday. “Clerk Peters denied to the judge that she was recording the hearing but an arrest warrant says ‘the iPadOS camera application was open, distinguishable with the red record button’ and that an observer ‘saw that the view in the viewfinder was a live view of the courtroom.'”
Footage of Peters’ arrest posted by Channel 9’s Kyle Clark shows the clerk scuffling with the officers, trying to pull herself away from them and yelling, “Let go of me!
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“It hurts!” Peters says as three officers surround her, holding her hands behind her back. “Let go of me! Give me my key to my car!” she yells before officers take her outside.
Tuesday’s arrest was not “directly related to multiple state and federal investigations into Peters’s alleged involvement last year in election data security breaches, Colorado Politics reported.
According to CP, “Peters has been accused of helping facilitate breaches in election system security, ignoring election rules and defying orders from Secretary of State Jena Griswold. She also faces ethics and campaign finance complaints involving gifts she’s allegedly accepted above legal limits. Last month, Mesa County District Attorney Dan Rubinstein and Colorado Attorney General Phil Weiser announced that the Mesa County grand jury was investigating allegations of tampering with Mesa County election equipment and official misconduct.”
Watch the video of the arrest below.
UPDATE: Republican Mesa County Clerk Tina Peters appeared to attempt to kick a law enforcement officer while struggling with police during her arrest. This is video from a witness. pic.twitter.com/TILJ1198BV
— Kyle Clark (@KyleClark) February 8, 2022
