An anti-COVID-19 vaccine group chief, who recently set out on a cross-country highway travel with the top purpose of conducting citizen arrests of Democratic governors, has found himself at the back of bars.
On Tuesday afternoon, anti-vax “Vaccine Police” leader Christopher Paul Key was arrested and booked into Jefferson County Jail in Birmingham, Alabama, stemming from a felony trespassing in the 3rd stage fee.
A Jefferson County Jail consultant showed to the Daily Beast Tuesday night time that Key is being held without bond.
The anti-vaxxer, who “serves” packets of paperwork that supposedly show that the protected and effective COVID-19 vaccine is supposedly a “bioweapon,” had a courtroom hearing previous Tuesday over an arrest at a Whole Foods in April, where Key used to be cited with trespassing.
“I have court docket lately at 1:30 central,” Key texted The Daily Beast ahead of his hearing, “it'll be fascinating.” In a subsequent series of five videos posted to Telegram on Tuesday afternoon, Key recorded himself “strolling into court docket,” handiest to be stopped through somebody off-camera who informs him he must put on a face protecting. “I were given arrested cuz I wouldn’t put on a mask,” he stated at one level, “and this is what this factor is all about!”
Speaking to a court-appointed lawyer out of doors the court docket, Key may well be heard pointing out, “Again. You can’t. I’m competent.” “I’m no longer insane,” Key persevered, fumbling with a chain of prison terms earlier than claiming he is a “whole, general unfastened man.”
“I'm completely sane. I don’t need an attorney,” he added, “I am a free man.”
Ahead of the listening to, Key refused to wear a face masking, citing a “scientific, non secular exemption,” whilst arguing with an unidentifiable person that he is allowed to “report” in the courtroom for his “coverage.” A courtroom reliable might be heard telling Key he may find a way to video name into the hearing. “She’s now broken the regulation twice,” Key then declared in regards to the pass judgement on presiding over the case.
At the tip of December, Key set out on his highway travel with the purpose of arresting Democratic state governors over their vaccine mandates. In a sequence of Telegram posts in mid-December, Key additionally showed off an arsenal of weapons, including a flamethrower and high capacity firearms.
Key further instructed The Daily Beast that he have been traveling across the nation “serving” state officers with packets of information he believes supports his conspiracy idea that COVID-19 vaccines are “bioweapons.”
“The executive is we the people,” he mentioned to provide an explanation for why he had the authority to arrest governors. “That is the government!”
On Tuesday evening, neither Key nor his “Vaccine Police” organization returned The Daily Beast’s request for comment.
Key mentioned that he had “no concept what has happened,” in a call-in interview from a jail telephone to the far-right character Stew Peters’ program.
“I have no idea how lengthy I will be able to be in jail,” he stated, including: “We are still doing God’s paintings.”
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