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25-02-2025
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This Shocking Moment at a GOP Town Hall in Idaho Is a Foreboding Sign
Teresa Borrenpohl later told the Coeur d'Alene Press that, as it happened, she didn't know if it was an arrest of a kidnapping. She was seated in a nearly-full town hall hosted by the Kootenai County Republican Central Committee on Saturday. At first, the scene was similar to those that have played out over the last week or so, with opponents of the Trump and Musk takeover showing up to tell their lawmakers to show some spine, even in deeply conservative counties. But then, when a group of unmarked security descended on Borrenpohl, the conflict at the town hall took a more terrifying turn. A member of the panel was giving an anti-abortion talking point when a voice from the audience talked over him, saying 'Women are dying.' The panel member continued. The moderator, a local website developer named Ed Bejarana, interrupted to lecture audience members who he said were 'just popping off with stupid remarks,' and Teresa Borrenpohl yelled back, 'Is this a town hall or a lecture?' Bejerma continued: 'You're just crazy people.' Kootenai County Sheriff Robert Norris by then was standing over Borrenpohl. He was in plainclothes and she didn't recognize him at first. 'Get 'em out!' Bejarana exclaimed, to boos and applause. Sheriff Norris told Borrenpohl to get up or be arrested. He leaned over to a woman next to her, recording the scene on a phone, and said she would also be removed. Borrenpohl was likely recognized by at least some in the room as a former Democratic candidate for office, but she said she didn't know why she was in trouble. She stayed in her seat. 'That little girl is afraid to leave!' Bejarana called from the stage. 'She spoke up and now she doesn't want to suffer the consequences.' A man dressed in a black jacket, olive pants, and an earbud or earpiece stepped into the row and grabbed Borrenpohl's wrist. She yanked it back. He went for her hands again. She pointed at the man looming over her, yelling out, 'this man is assaulting me.' The man stepped further into the aisle, joined be a second in identical attire. 'Is this your deputy?' she yelled. 'Sheriff Norris, is this your deputy?' If the men were working for the sheriff, they weren't showing any insignia. Their faces were blank. 'Who the fuck are these men?' Borrenpohl yelled again. As the two men grappled her, some in the audience began to cheer, while others took up the woman's demand that the men identify themselves. A third man in the same jacket and pants arrived, holding a bunch of plastic zipcuffs. They got Teresa Borrenpohl on her stomach, kneeling over her. Then they dragged her out of the room. In the past week, with Congress in recess, Republican lawmakers across the country have faced hostile town halls, where constituents dissatisfied with the Trump/Musk chaos in the federal government boo, chant, and interrupt.. Some Democrats have been facing pressure from their own. 'Tyranny is rising in the White House, and a man has declared himself our king,' one audience voter challenged his representative at a town hall in Georgia days before. 'So, I would like to know rather, the people would like to know, what you, congressman, and your fellow congressmen are going to do to rein in the megalomaniac in the White House?' Like the rolling pickets outside Tesla showrooms in recent weeks, these actions have at times been intentionally disruptive, meant not merely as protest but to interrupt business as usual. What was done to Borrenpohl in Coeur d'Alene, for speaking out at a town, is a terrifying escalation. In Idaho, the lines between Republican politics and political violence are thinner than they are in some places, but there's no reason to believe this escalation won't be repeated. Who were the men who accosted Teresa Borrenpohl, and what was the local sheriff doing with them? Much remains murky—Teresa Borrenpohl did not respond to a request for comment for this piece—but the Coeur d'Alene Press has found some answers. The unmarked security force were from a private security firm called LEAR Asset Management, the Press reported, but Sheriff Norris 'claimed no knowledge of the security personnel or who hired them.' The man who founded and runs the group is Paul Trouette, who was seen in Coeur d'Alene several months ago at a city council meeting, opposing a local ordinance that would have required private security outfits more clearly identify themselves. At the time, the Kootenai Journal reported, Coeur d'Alene Police Chief Lee White 'made references to situations in which security personnel were confused with law enforcement officers, or acted as if they were law enforcement officers, within the last year in Coeur d'Alene.' LEAR has operated in California going back at least to 2012, with Trouette running what 'looks like a military assault force,' as Time magazine observed in 2014. 'Clad in body armor and camouflage and carrying AR-15 rifles, they creep through the trees toward their target: one of the illegal marijuana gardens dotting Mendocino County.' More recently, LEAR seems to have turned up pro bono and perhaps uninvited to clear an encampment where unhoused people were living near Ackman Creek in Mendocino County. After a local news outlet reported on Paul Trouette doing security at the clean-up, a county agency involved in the effort said 'it is unclear to us who contacted Lear.' When exactly LEAR began operating in Idaho is unclear—requests for comment sent to the security firm remained unanswered by publication time. Kootenai County's local Republican party has been dominated by MAGA Republicans in recent years. Militia and militia-like groups in the region had also found a foothold again, after years of residents confronting them, going back to efforts to run the Aryan Nations out of the area in the 1990s. The town hall in Coeur d'Alene was not the first time Trouette and other LEAR security forces have been deployed against community activists. A few years back, they were working to surveil anti-logging tree sits and protests in the Jackson Demonstration State Forest in California. CAL FIRE said they LEAR was working as 'safety managers,' not private security. But local environment justice and indigenous groups reported that LEAR employees were instructing loggers on how to make 'citizens arrests' of protestors. In one incident outside a logging gate, according to local public radio outlet KZYX, about 20 minutes after Paul Trouette left the site, a 'large black truck with no license places' arrived and pulled alongside a Native Hawaiian activist and singer who was part of the effort to defend the site from logging. As a lawyer working with one of the groups wrote, 'They didn't say who they were, they didn't say we're with the police, or we're with Cal Fire. They just came up to her and said, you need to leave. And when she said that she wouldn't, they responded by reaching into their pocket and throwing bullet casings at her face and saying, you know, it's dangerous in here. And I think any reasonable person would feel that that was a death threat.' One of the men in the truck was reportedly wearing a Blue Lives Matter mask. Only after the three men from LEAR dragged Teresa Borrenpohl into the hallway outside the auditorium on Saturday did Coeur d'Alene police arrive and intervene, at first seemingly unaware of who the LEAR guys were, asking if they were with the sheriff. According to the Coeur d'Alene Press, White 'said it's not appropriate for law enforcement to forcefully remove a person from a town hall for speaking out of turn or shouting.' White also told the Press that 'his officers declined the sheriff's request that Borrenpohl be arrested for trespassing.' (She was charged with misdemeanor battery for allegedly biting one of the men who grabbed her, but the charge was dismissed by the city attorney on Monday.) Late on Monday, the Coeur d'Alene police announced that LEAR's license to operate in the city was now revoked due to the incident. Police also said that LEAR had been hired by the town hall organizers. Sheriff Norris has maintained that the firm's actions were proper. They are certainly in keeping with LEAR's history of policing protest while the agencies who hired them distance themselves from the private security they hired. In the recent past, unfortunately, what the far right do in Idaho has been an indicator of what may be erupting elsewhere—whether that's masked militia groups patrolling Pride events, or violent white supremacists running for office. Under this Trump administration, it feels like a series of limits are being tested, and in this part of the country, the tests were already underway. A Unite the Right attendee already won an endorsement from the Kootenai County Republican Central Committee in 2021 (he lost). Sheriff Norris already went viral for hunting for 'explicit' books in a local library. Now, with the apparent blessing of the county sheriff, a group of men who would not identify themselves and who were working for the local Republican party have dragged someone out of a political meeting, her speech considered grounds for arrest. What's next? And who will stand in their way?
Yahoo
25-02-2025
- Politics
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Idaho woman's removal from town hall garners national attention. Watch full video here
A legislative town hall in Coeur d'Alene has received scrutiny after an interrupting attendee was dragged from the event. Videos of the incident have gone viral. The Kootenai County Republican Central Committee held a Legislative Town Hall on Saturday afternoon at Coeur d'Alene High School. The committee described the event on Facebook as a 'great opportunity to meet your Idaho State Legislators and get updates on the 2025 Legislative Session.' Videos posted by attendees online showed Teresa Borrenpohl of Post Falls yelling during the event before being pulled from her seat, wrestled to the ground and dragged out. An video posted to Facebook shows the lead-up to the incident. A separate video posted by the Kootenai County Republican Central Committee shows its chairman Brent Regan warning the crowd that there is private security at the event and those who can't maintain decorum would be removed. Shortly before the confrontation with Borrenpohl begins, an onstage speaker can be heard in the video discussing an anti-abortion bill. 'Women are dying,' says one person. 'And doctors are leaving our state!' another shouts. The speaker, identified by the Coeur d'Alene Press as the event's emcee, Ed Bejarana, admonishes those speaking out. 'Folks who are just popping off with stupid remarks, you are not taking into account the people sitting next to you,' Bejarana says in the video. 'There's a bunch of people that came here to hear them.' 'Is this a town hall or a lecture?' Borrenpohl, who lost a 2024 election run for the Idaho House of Representatives District 5B, yells back. Kootenai County Sheriff Robert Norris, wearing a hat with the word 'sheriff' on it, can then be seen motioning for Borrenpohl to get up. 'Get up or be arrested,' Norris tells her. An eight-minute video posted to YouTube shows the full events of the incident after Borrenpohl was confronted by the sheriff. After some back and forth, Norris grabs Borrenpohl's arm. Norris repeatedly asks her to leave, and Borrenpohl repeatedly asks him not to touch her. At one point, Norris asks Borrenpohl if she wants him to use pepper spray. Norris eventually gestures to two plainclothes security guards and appears to give them instructions. Norris filmed the guards attempting to pick her up from her seat. Borrenpohl and others continuously ask the men who they are, whether they are members of law enforcement, and to see their badges. 'Is this your deputy?' Borrenpohl asks Norris in the video. 'Who the (expletive) are these men?' Norris and the men do not appear to answer questions about their identity, but Coeur d'Alene Police Chief Lee White told the Coeur d'Alene Press that they were with private security firm LEAR Asset Management. Coeur d'Alene city code requires security agents to wear uniforms displaying the word 'security' on the front and back of their uniforms, the Press reported. The city revoked LEAR Asset Management's business license for violating the ordinance, according to Press. The men forcibly carry Borrenpohl out. A man in the background can be seen in the video holding zip ties, and photos show them being used on her. The video conflicts with statements later made by Norris to news outlets. The sheriff told KREM that he had walked away to escort another person out of the event and that Borrenpohl was already on the ground by the time he returned. He told the Press that he did not give the security guards any direction. The Press reported that police cited Borrenpohl for misdemeanor battery for biting one of the men, but the prosecuting attorney's office has moved to dismiss it after reviewing video.
Yahoo
25-02-2025
- Politics
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North Idaho woman forcibly removed from Kootenai County Republican town hall
Three employees of private security firm LEAR Asset Management dragged Post Falls resident Teresa Borrenpohl out of a town hall meeting in Coeur d'Alene on Feb. 22, 2025, for heckling Idaho legislators. (Courtesy of the Coeur d'Alene Press) COEUR d'ALENE — A legislative town hall organized by the Kootenai County Republican Central Committee devolved into chaos Saturday when unidentified, plainclothes security personnel dragged a Post Falls woman from the Coeur d'Alene High School auditorium for heckling legislators. Though the company that provided security for the event has been identified, town hall organizers and Kootenai County Sheriff Bob Norris have claimed no knowledge of the security personnel or who hired them. Coeur d'Alene Police Chief Lee White confirmed Sunday that the men who dragged Teresa Borrenpohl from the meeting worked for the private security firm LEAR Asset Management. Reached by phone on Saturday and Sunday, the firm's owner, Hayden resident Paul Trouette, declined to comment. As the town hall got underway and legislators made their remarks, Borrenpohl said the audience cheered and jeered at turns. 'Nobody was telling people cheering to stop cheering, but any time there was a negative reaction, we were scolded,' she said. 'I felt comfortable expressing displeasure because people were very openly expressing their appreciation for the legislators there.' Borrenpohl said the turning point came when Rep. Ron Mendive, R-Coeur d'Alene, spoke about how he helps to take care of Idaho's public lands as co-chair of the Resources and Conservation Committee. 'I screamed — out of turn, admittedly — 'Phil Hart stole timber from public land,'' Borrenpohl said. 'That's when they seized on me.' In 2010, The Coeur d'Alene Press reported that Sen. Phil Hart, R-Kellogg, issued a $2,450 check to the state for the 1996 market value of logs he took from state school endowment land to build his home. Borrenpohl said she didn't recognize Kootenai County Sheriff Bob Norris at first when he approached her in the semidarkness of the auditorium because he was dressed in jeans and a baseball cap. 'I was really dumbfounded because he said, 'Do you want me to pepper spray you?'' she recalled. 'That was the first thing he said to me that I remember.' Footage from the event showed Norris take Borrenpohl's arm with both hands and make multiple attempts to pull her from her seat. Borrenpohl said that after she declined to leave, Norris turned to the unidentified men and said, 'Guys, get her.' On video, Borrenpohl can be seen repeatedly asking the men to identify themselves. They did not. She asked Norris if the men were his deputies, and he gave no answer. Kootenai County GOP officials said Saturday that they didn't know which company provided security for their event and told the Press to seek that information from the sheriff. 'Bob (Norris) was right there,' KCRCC chair Brent Regan said. 'Nothing was done without him being aware.' Norris denied knowledge of the event's security arrangements and said he didn't know the security personnel. Norris said his handling of Borrenpohl was in line with protocols that were set before the town hall began, though he did not explain what the protocols were or who had set them. '(Borrenpohl) was asked to leave,' he said Sunday. 'She was asked to leave.' With recordings of Norris and the security guards pulling on Borrenpohl circulating widely on social media, Norris said he's received death threats and he believes the incident is not being covered fairly. '(The security guards') reaction was to (Borrenpohl's) action,' Norris said. 'The reason why that occurred was because people came to disrupt.' White said it's not appropriate for law enforcement to forcefully remove a person from a town hall for speaking out of turn or shouting. 'I don't care what your message is, especially in an open town hall like this,' White said. 'We have to respect everybody's First Amendment rights, regardless of what side of the aisle you happen to sit on. I know there's some people up here who probably disagree with me and would like us to take action and maybe try to silence a voice that's in opposition to theirs at a town hall, but there's very little we can do with regard to First Amendment protections. We have to make sure people have the protections afforded them under the Constitution.' Mary Rosdahl attended the town hall and described watching the sheriff attempt to pull Borrenpohl from her seat, then beckon to the security personnel. Rosdahl, who is a nurse, said she stood nearby during the incident because she feared for Borrenpohl's safety. 'They came and took her by the arms and pulled her and then took her by her feet and pulled her into the aisle,' she said. 'They laid her face-down on the floor. Two of them were on top of her, holding her down, and then eventually they boosted her up on her feet and dragged her out the door. I was worried about their handling.' Borrenpohl said she remembers 'hands coming from everywhere' trying to haul her from her seat and pushing her to the ground. To her left, she said, she heard friends defending her while people across the aisle jeered at her and applauded the men who were attempting to remove her from the auditorium. As the men dragged her down the aisle, Borrenpohl lost her shoe, and at one point, her shirt nearly came off. 'It was really violent and really traumatic,' she said. 'They had grabbed my wrists. They contorted my body. They lifted me up and dropped me down. My only thought was to maintain my airway. They were forcing me down on the ground. I just wanted to make sure I could still breathe.' Borrenpohl said she bit one of the men who was dragging her from the auditorium. 'I didn't know if I was being detained by what I now knew to be the sheriff's office or if these were private hired guns,' she said. 'I was so confused, and I didn't know if I was being arrested by the sheriff's office or if I was being kidnapped.' White confirmed that Borrenpohl was cited and released for misdemeanor battery because of the bite, though he noted that the officers who responded to CHS didn't have access to the numerous video recordings that showed what happened before they arrived. 'Now that we are in receipt of several videos that show the majority of the event that we didn't have at the time, (the battery citation) will be under review by our prosecutor's office,' he said. On Monday, The Coeur d'Alene Press reported that city prosecutors will dismiss the misdemeanor battery citation. The city of Coeur d'Alene also revoked the security company's business license, The Press reported. 'The city prosecuting attorney's office has moved to dismiss the citation against Borrenpohl in the interest of justice,' the Coeur d'Alene Police Department said in a press release Monday. White said his officers declined the sheriff's request that Borrenpohl be arrested for trespassing. 'We respectfully informed the sheriff that, since this was an open to the public event, we are not going to arrest anyone for trespassing,' White said. 'That would be inappropriate.' Meanwhile, the city revoked the business license for LEAR Asset Management 'for violating Coeur d'Alene city ordinances regarding security agencies and agents,' The Press reported on Monday. Coeur d'Alene city code requires security agents to wear uniforms 'clearly marked' with the word 'security' in letters no less than 1 inch tall on the front and no less than four inches tall on the back. The security personnel at Saturday's town hall were in plainclothes, with no visible sign they were security. When the Coeur d'Alene City Council approved the uniform requirement last summer, Trouette testified against the change. 'Paul Trouette contacted me and told me they wouldn't be doing any security of that type in our city, and yet, here they are,' White said. 'As far as I know, (LEAR Asset Management has) a license, but not a license to perform activity such as this.' Norris said he was invited to lead the Pledge of Allegiance at the town hall and remained onsite after doing so because of a recent threat against Rep. Jordan Redman, R-Coeur d'Alene. On Saturday morning, Coeur d'Alene police were investigating a threat against Redman's office that originated on social media. White said his agency only learned about the town hall because Redman mentioned it when they spoke with him about the threat. Coeur d'Alene police officers were in the parking lot at CHS during the town hall in case the Shoshone County resident who allegedly made the threat appeared, White said. When there was a disturbance in the auditorium, no one alerted the officers until after Borrenpohl had been removed. Norris said this was because it wasn't the agency's place to act. 'They don't have jurisdiction,' he said of the Coeur d'Alene Police Department. 'They would not have come into a private event held at the high school and the person who secures the location gets to set the protocols of what occurs.' White pushed back on Norris' comment. Coeur d'Alene High School is squarely within his agency's jurisdiction, he said, and his officers would've entered the building had they been called sooner. 'We would've stood by to make sure no one was in danger, while at the same time protecting people's First Amendment rights,' he said. Rosdahl, who regularly attends town halls and other political events, called Saturday's scene 'terrible' and said she's concerned the chaos will have a chilling effect on political speech in Kootenai County. 'It was a time for our legislators and the moderator to put forward their ideas about government, but there was no public feedback,' she said. 'They didn't want to hear what the community had to say. That was very clear.' Borrenpohl ran as a Democrat for a legislative seat in 2020, 2022 and 2024. During the past several years, amid North Idaho College's accreditation crisis, she vocally criticized three former NIC trustees who were backed by the Kootenai County GOP. 'I didn't know if I was in trouble for saying Phil Hart stole from public lands or if it was because I'm a known Democrat in the area,' she said. The town hall was meant to be a forum where constituents could engage with their legislators, Borrenpohl said. She said she was denied that opportunity. Borrenpohl also alleges she was assaulted. 'I think that my civil rights were stripped from me in that moment in a really embarrassing way,' she said. 'Admittedly, I spoke out of turn. But do we live in a country where you speak out of turn and the result is three men assaulting a woman?' SUPPORT: YOU MAKE OUR WORK POSSIBLE
The Independent
24-02-2025
- Politics
- The Independent
Idaho town hall meeting turns chaotic after woman is forcibly removed for heckling speakers
A Republican-hosted legislative town hall meeting in northern Idaho became turbulent after three plainclothes security workers forcibly removed a woman who was heckling the speakers. The incident Saturday at Coeur d'Alene High School, first reported by the Coeur d'Alene Press, quickly drew widespread attention after videos of the chaos were posted online. Now more than $100,000 has been raised for Teresa Borrenpohl's legal costs — she was issued a misdemeanor citation for battery after biting one of the men who tried to drag her from her seat — and critics are saying she was wrongfully detained. Borrenpohl is a Democrat who unsuccessfully ran for a state legislative seat in 2024. She didn't immediately respond to a request for comment from The Associated Press. 'She repeatedly asked them to identify themselves,' said Tonya Coppedge, who was sitting behind Borrenpohl and shot video of the disruption on her cellphone. The men, who were later identified as employees of a private security company, refused, she said. At one point, one of the men bent Borrenpohl's wrist into an extremely flexed position that appeared to be painful, she said. 'They were not very kind to her — it was pretty violent and traumatic,"Coppedge said. 'I think everybody was pretty disturbed by what took place.' Kootenai County Republican Central Committee Chairman Brent Regan said everyone who attended the event were told that security officials were present and that 'anyone who refused to respect the rights of others would be removed from the event.' Borrenpohl repeatedly interrupted the speakers and was warned at least three times, Regan said. 'We're trying to respect the rights of the 450 people that were there to listen. One person can't stand up to bring a halt to the whole event," Regan said. 'The disruption was more than 18 minutes that we had to stop, and that took time away from the question and answer session.' Videos of the event show multiple people there were cheering or jeering, including Borrenpohl. After one of the speakers asked the jeering to stop, Kootenai County Sheriff Bob Norris — also in plain clothes but wearing his badge on his belt — approached Borrenpohl. He introduced himself and told her to leave or she would be escorted out. Then the sheriff stepped back and began recording on his cellphone as three unidentified men approached and began grabbing Borrenpohl. Borrenpohl repeatedly asked if the men are deputies but was given no answer. She fought to remain in her seat, but the men overpowered her, carrying her out of the venue. Alicia Abbott, a friend of Borrenpohl's who organized a GoFundMe on her behalf, said Borrenpohl and has bruises on her chest from the incident. She suggested Borrenpohl was wrongly detained by the unidentified security workers. 'Who were these people to detain Teresa in the first place?' Abbot asked. 'This is not the first time we've seen this kind of security presence in public meetings or town halls. If they're going to be detaining people, do they even have knowledge of the law? Are they trained to safely remove people?" The men who physically removed Teresa Borrenpohl from the meeting worked for the private security company LEAR Asset Management, based in Hayden, Idaho. Messages left for its CEO were not immediately returned. The men appeared to have violated Coeur d'Alene City ordinances, which require security personnel to wear uniforms with the word 'Security' clearly marked 'in letters no less than 1-inch tall on the front of the uniform.' Organizers arranged for extra security at the event after one of the lawmakers told them he had been facing death threats, Regan said. Rep. Jordan Redman, a Republican, had recently been threatened with bombings by an individual on social media, and so KCRCC notified the sheriff and arranged for security, Regan said. The Coeur d'Alene Police Department also had officers stationed in the parking lot outside. On Monday, Kootenai County Undersheriff Brett Nelson released a statement saying the agency will have a 'complete and independent investigation of the incident conducted by an outside agency.' ___
Yahoo
24-02-2025
- Politics
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Idaho town hall meeting turns chaotic after woman is forcibly removed for heckling speakers
COEUR D'ALENE, Idaho (AP) — A Republican-hosted legislative town hall meeting in northern Idaho became turbulent after three plainclothes security workers forcibly removed a woman who was heckling the speakers. The incident Saturday at Coeur d'Alene High School, first reported by the Coeur d'Alene Press, quickly drew widespread attention after videos of the chaos were posted online. Now more than $93,000 has been raised for Teresa Borrenpohl's legal costs — she was issued a misdemeanor citation for battery after biting one of the men who tried to drag her from her seat — and critics are saying she was wrongfully detained. Borrenpohl is a Democrat who unsuccessfully ran for a state legislative seat in 2024. See for yourself — The Yodel is the go-to source for daily news, entertainment and feel-good stories. By signing up, you agree to our Terms and Privacy Policy. 'She repeatedly asked them to identify themselves,' said Tonya Coppedge, who was sitting behind Borrenpohl and shot video of the disruption on her cellphone. The men, who were later identified as employees of a private security company, refused, she said. At one point, one of the men bent Borrenpohl's wrist into an extremely flexed position that appeared to be painful, she said. 'They were not very kind to her — it was pretty violent and traumatic,"Coppedge said. 'I think everybody was pretty disturbed by what took place.' Kootenai County Republican Central Committee Chairman Brent Regan said all 450 people who attended the event were told that security officials were present and that 'anyone who refused to respect the rights of others would be removed from the event.' Borrenpohl repeatedly interrupted the speakers and was warned at least three times, Regan said. 'We're trying to respect the rights of the 450 people that were there to listen. One person can't stand up to bring a halt to the whole event," Regan said. 'The disruption was more than 18 minutes that we had to stop, and that took time away from the question and answer session.' Videos of the event show multiple people there were cheering or jeering, including Borrenpohl. After one of the speakers asked the jeering to stop, Kootenai County Sheriff Bob Norris approached Borrenpohl. He introduced himself and told her to leave or she would be escorted out. Then the sheriff stepped back and began recording on his cellphone as three unidentified men approached and began grabbing Borrenpohl. Borrenpohl repeatedly asked if the men are deputies but was given no answer. She fought to remain in her seat, but the men overpowered her, carrying her out of the venue.
