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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NEW: @GrandJunctionPD is recommending a misdemeanor obstructing a peace officer charge against Mesa County Clerk Tina Peters for this arrest, as DA investigators were serving a search warrant for Peters' iPad.
@GrandJunctionPD According to an arrest affidavit, Peters was sitting at a table with several others. When DA investigators arrived for the iPad, the group started passing it around. Then the cops arrived.
You can see the arrest play out in the video from a witness above. What we don't see is what happens outside. A woman is seen filming the arrest with a phone. According to the affidavit, Peters asks the woman filming to step forward to whisper something to her...
NEW: By a 3-2 vote, Adams County Commissioners join Douglas County in opting out of the @TCHDHealth public health order mandating masks in schools. #9News#HeyNext
Interesting comment from Eva Henry, chair of the board, responding to Comissioner Emma Pinter’s suggestion that the board support recommendations from the health department it trusted with making this decision…
Henry said by allowing an opt out - @TCHDHealth made it political.
This is fascinating. There’s still public comment where people are urging the board to opt out…even though they already have.
I just bought an e-bike to commute to and from work. I plan on riding it to the light rail station...then riding from the light rail station to work...doing some quick calculations...
I'll do it 3 days a week. RTD doesn't run late enough when I work weekend nights...(thread)
My Mazda CX-5 gets about 28 mpg on my typical commuting pattern...(not on the sticker - I mean what the actual MPG gauge tells me).
Gas in Colorado right now is on average...about $3.63/gallon.
My commute to work is roughly 12.5 each way.
If you're operating solely off the price of gas alone... I can get away with less than $3.63 per day.
NEW: In a late night news release, the Eagle County Sheriff says deputies will be present in schools on Monday because of tensions in the community over a new mask mandate in Eagle County Schools. #9News
The district announced on Friday that masks would be required for students, teachers, staff and visitors in all buildings with Pre-K through 8, due to a public health order from the county health department.
A news release says the county expects to lift the school masks public health order when case rates go below 50 per 100,000 for 7 days.
The state's COVID data dashboard has Eagle's current one week incidence rate at 208 per 100,000.
🧵 I’ll never forget this day. I was going into my senior year in high school. I was in a guitar lesson at the Music Castle on Woodward Ave in Royal Oak, MI. The power went out - we thought it was people across the street setting up for the Woodward Dream Cruise….
My instructor finished my lesson acoustically, we walked out of the little studio and I overheard the owner of the shop listening to @WWJ950 on a battery-powered radio. The anchor said there were reports of power out along the entire east coast….
I had the car, so I had to go pick my mom up at work - about 2 miles away from where I was. It took me an hour and a half to travel a mile on Woodward Avenue. Traffic was gridlocked. It felt so ominous….
NEW: Cherry Creek Schools just announced students pre-K through 6th grade will be required to wear masks this school year. #9News
According to a letter from the superintendent (cherrycreekschools.org/Page/13691) 90% of students in 6th grade fall into the age group ineligible to receive the vaccine.
Superintendent Christopher Smith says he spoke with Dr. John Douglas, who heads the Tri-County Health Department today - prompting this decision. Douglas told him current conditions in schools aren't safe for unvaccinated children without masks.