NEW: We're going through body camera video of the arrest of Mesa County Clerk Tina Peters. After Peters is escorted out, she continues to accuse officers of hurting her. An officer suggests she "stand up like an adult"
Peters: "Shut up. What an a**h*** thing to say to me."
As officers place Peters in a patrol car, Peters, who'd been loudly accusing officers of hurting her for several minutes, lowers her voice and asks if officers know what they're really doing... "You're assisting Merrick Garland to not show truth about election machines."
Let's back track. Here's the lead-up to the arrest. DA investigators are serving a search warrant for Peters' iPad. When officers arrive, they start to approach a man named Randy, but it appears Peters steps in the way.
The audio on the body cam is redacted as officers converse with DA investigators while Peters is in the back of a squad car, but a DA investigator is seen holding an iPad with a keyboard like the one described in the search warrant.
The DA investigator meets Peters in the back of the patrol car. Peters tells the investigator she wishes they would investigate election fraud, then claims the device they have is not her iPad.
Peters says she can't hold the warrant to read it..."you could before," he tells her.
As Peters is uncuffed, she's told to keep her hands behind her back. She pulls her wrist forward and says "look what you did to me."
She then tearfully says she thinks officers have broken her hand. She's offered an ambulance, but instead has a bystander take a photo.
Seconds after saying her hand is broken, she uses it to hold the search warrant the investigator gives her the chance to read, then puts that same hand on her hip.
She continues to insist that the iPad isn't hers.
Peters tells the DA investigator the iPad belongs to Tammy Bailey. When the investigator asks if Tammy is a local, Peters responds no...then says she needs to talk to her lawyer.
She ends the conversation, walks away, "What is this a police state? It looks like it."
That's going to do it for me. My colleagues on @nexton9news will have more of this video tonight. It's my day off - and my wife would really appreciated it if I did my laundry.
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