Anti-vaxxer Christopher Key, the leader of the ‘vaccine police’ organization who was traveling around the country with a fake badge and guns to perform citizen’s arrests on Americans including Democratic governors, has been arrested.
According to the Daily Beast Key was arrested on Tuesday and booked into a Jefferson County Jail in Birmingham, Alabama on a criminal trespassing in the third degree charge stemming from an April incident at a Whole Foods where he was cited for trespassing. He is being held without bond.
Key reportedly had a court appearance earlier on Tuesday and documented his walk into the court in a series of videos posted to Telegram. He showed up without a mask and refused to wear one, citing a “medical, religious exemption.”
A court official could be heard telling Key that he has the option to video call into the hearing while he was telling another individual off camera that he is allowed to record for his protection.
Key also accused the judge presiding over his case of breaking the law twice.
In a call-in interview from jail with right wing personality Stew Peters, Key explained that the court bailiff told him that he must wear a mask or “he does not know what is going to happen.” At that point Key said he started recording and was subsequently arrested after ignoring the court’s order telling him not to record.
He told Peters that he overheard the judge said that since he did not put a mask on “that is failure to appear.”
Key set out on a road trip across the country last month with a fake badge, guns and a flamethrower to conduct citizen’s arrest on officials vaccinating the public and Democratic governors over vaccine mandates.
He plans to conduct a citizen’s arrest of Louisiana Democratic Gov. John Bel Edwards “on February the 7th if he does not stand down and not vaccinate the children of Louisiana.”
The plan will still move forward, Key said, even though he has no idea how long he will be in jail. In his absence he urged his followers to carry out the plan of arresting the governor “legally and lawfully” because ‘vaccine police’ is “not about violence” because they are “still doing God’s work.”
