February 08, 2022 04:01 PM UTC

Tina Peters and the Donkey Kick

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• by: Colorado Pols

WEDNESDAY UPDATE: Looks like there are more charges coming from this incident after all, as the Grand Junction Sentinel’s Charles Ashby reports today:

The brief detention was the result of a search warrant Grand Junction Police officers were executing to get [Peters’] iPad, which she allegedly used to videotape a recent motions hearing for Deputy Clerk Belinda Knisley, according to the search warrant obtained by The Daily Sentinel through a Colorado Open Records Act request…

While District Attorney Dan Rubinstein said police were not there initially to arrest Peters, but to execute the search warrant, police now plan to issue an arrest affidavit and file formal charges, possibly for obstruction of justice, which is a misdemeanor punishable by fines and possible jail time.

An arrest affidavit is to be issued soon, the department said.

As the saying goes, play stupid games, win stupid prizes! Mesa County Clerk Tina Peters is winning a lot of stupid prizes lately, potentially the biggest of which is in the hands of a Mesa County grand jury and separately the FBI considering state and federal charges respectively. Misdemeanor obstruction of justice is one of the ancillary stupid prizes collected along the way when you respond to legal trouble as disastrously as Clerk Peters has.

And it’s a long way from over.

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Here’s Mesa County Clerk and Recorder Tina Peters in trouble with law enforcement once again.

Wait for it…and turn the sound up. It’s better with the sound.

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