Police arrest Mesa County clerk who promoted Trump’s false election claims

Enlarge / Tina Peters. (credit: Tina Peters' campaign website)

Mesa County Clerk Tina Peters-who was recently barred from overseeing an election and has promoted former President Trump's conspiracy theory that voting machines were manipulated to help Joe Biden win the presidency-was arrested at a bagel shop yesterday and accused of resisting a search warrant.

The search warrant was for an iPad that Peters was accused of using to record a court hearing in violation of court rules. Video of the brief detainment shows Peters being handcuffed and repeatedly shouting, "Let go of me... give me my key to my car!" The video shows her kicking her leg backward at one of the arresting officers while trying to escape their grasp. "Do not kick-you understand?" an officer told Peters.

The Grand Junction Police Department issued a statement saying that officers were present yesterday morning "to assist investigators with the Mesa County District Attorney's Office who advised our officers they were executing a search warrant. Mesa County Clerk Tina Peters was arrested and released on scene, pending charges related to this incident... An arrest affidavit is being submitted and once it becomes available, will be released."

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