NEW: An arrest warrant has been issued for Mesa County Clerk Tina Peters for a misdemeanor charge of Obstructing a Peace Officer. This is in addition to the felony investigation that prompted the confrontation. #copolitics
The affidavit in support of the arrest warrant says Peters interfered with officers and attempted to kick an officer, striking her Taser and magazine pouch on her belt. "I told the suspect, 'Do not kick! Do you understand!?'" an officer recounted.
The affidavit says Peters was resisting and going limp. This is seen on a video of the incident where an officer tells Peters, "Stand up like an adult." Peters responded, "Shut up! What an asshole thing to say to me."
As Peters was buckled into a seat in a patrol car, the arresting officer says Peters told him that he was assisting US Attorney General Merrick Garland. "She continued talking about something pertaining to the election as I closed the patrol car door," the officer said.
Peters accused officers of breaking her wrist in a video aired by MyPillow Guy Mike Lindell's Lindell TV. An officer is heard offering Peters an ambulance. She declined.
Peters ally Sherronna Bishop, GOP Rep Lauren Boebert's former campaign manager, appeared on LindellTV to urge local law enforcement to refuse to execute court-ordered warrants. "As some point they've got to draw a line and say we're not participating anymore," Bishop said.
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NEW: Republican Mesa County Clerk Tina Peters is speaking tonight at an FEC United event in Castle Rock alongside founder Joe Oltmann who has called for the mass hanging of political opponents, including Governor Polis. #copolitics
Clerk Peters entered to a thunderous standing ovation from the crowd. FEC United, which has an affiliated militia wing, has collected signed loyalty pledges from a number of elected Republicans in Colorado and was previously led by @cologop chair @ColoradoKbb.
@cologop@ColoradoKbb Tonight's event also features former University of Colorado Boulder visiting conservative scholar John Eastman, who advised the Trump legal team on how to overturn the 2020 election. Eastman has said he will defy a subpoena from the Jan 6 select committee.
UPDATE: Adams County's Democratic Sheriff @RickReigenborn is running for re-election and eluding @Marshall9News' questions about his decision to join a car chase, livestream it, and keep chasing when other officers said it was too dangerous to continue. #copolitics
The Adams County Sheriff's office now says Sheriff @RickReigenborn's mystery wingman during the livestreamed car chase was a former radio broadcaster named "Tim Sheley." Tim Shiely is better known as @thescootermcgee, a former talk radio host and conspiracy theorist.
NEW: Republican Mesa County Elections Clerk Tina Peters turned herself in this morning on a misdemeanor charge of obstructing an officer. Booking photo from Mesa County Sheriff’s Office. #copolitics
Peters struggled with and appeared to kick at an officer as law enforcement attempted to serve a search warrant on Tuesday. Prosecutors say Peters used an iPad to improperly record a court proceeding and lied to a judge about it, a potential felony.
@AdamsCoSheriff@Marshall9News@SteveStaeger A key unanswered question: Who was riding along with Adams County Sheriff Rick Reigenborn (D) and livestreaming the pursuit when the sheriff chose to continue giving chase when other officers called it off due to safety concerns?
Reigenborn, who is running for re-election this year, was too busy for an interview, according to spokesman Sgt. Adam Sherman.
NEW: Mesa County Clerk Tina Peters (R) was arrested this morning by Grand Junction Police. Officers were responding to a request to assist local prosecutors on an investigation. Peters was released on scene and charges are pending, per police. #copolitics
Officers were serving a warrant to seize Clerk 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. It's the white iPad in the courtroom image below.
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"
NEW: DougCo's School Board president said today that Superintendent Corey Wise was fired, in part, for not quashing rumors that the board gutted the equity policy. Today, a PAC backing the conservative majority appeared on FOX News and praised them for gutting the equity policy.
Background: Last month, the newly-elected conservative majority on the DougCo school board recommended changes to an equity policy implemented by the prior progressive majority board. Educators within the district pushed back strongly. 9news.com/article/news/e…
Board President Mike Peterson told KOA Radio today that the equity policy remains "exactly intact." (That's correct. The changes are directed at a future date.) Peterson blamed Superintendent Corey Wise for not defending the board's decision on the equity policy.