KEY POINTS Multiple police reports filed after individuals attempted to assault signature gatherers and take their signature packets. On Jan. 23, a signature gatherer in American Fork was assaulted by an individual who took the gatherer’s signature petition packet and ripped it. The Deseret News confirmed from police reports other instances of signature packets being stolen from signature gatherers by individuals who choose not to sign. On Tuesday, police reports were filed in Centerville and in Salt Lake City recording instances where individuals took, and sometimes tore up, signature petition packets from signature gatherers. But one professional signature gatherer in Utah to repeal Prop 4 told the Deseret News he has never seen this kind of violence toward signature gatherers.