Allegan County deputies ordering a woman collecting signatures near a voting precinct to leave the property on Nov. 3, 2020. (Courtesy: Katherine Henry via YouTube)
LEIGHTON TOWNSHIP, Mich. (WOOD) — On Tuesday, election day, Allegan County deputies ordered an attorney collecting signatures to leave Leighton Township property after she failed to comply with the township clerk’s request to do so.
Hudsonville attorney and activist Katherine Henry, founder of the Restore Freedom Initiative, posted the resulting confrontation on YouTube.
Henry is also a candidate vying for a seat on the Georgetown Township Board.
She and other organizers collected signatures at precincts around West Michigan Tuesday.
In a video posted to YouTube , Henry said, “So, he’s here, trying to arrest me,” referring to an Allegan County deputy.
The activist/attorney had set up a table at the edge of the township building’s parking lot to collect signatures for her Restore Freedom petition, which, according to the group’s website, would amend the state constitution to “reign back in government power.”
She maintains table was not near that line.
Henry stated in the video, “They are, he says, going to arrest me if we don’t leave right now because the township owns this property and the township said we have to leave."
She later said in a post on her Facebook page, “I do have criminal charges. I was handcuffed. I am injured from that … thrown into the cruiser instead of allowing me to sit in it."
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See the confrontation here: