CD’A prosecutors throw battery tasks against the woman dragged from the town hall

Coeur d’Alene – the city’s prosecutors will reject a citation of the offense battery issued to the Post Falls woman, which the private security clothing was dragged from a legislative town hall on Saturday, and the city of Coeur d’Alene revoked the business license of the Security Company .

The legislative City Hall organized by the Central Republican Committee of Kootenai County has descended into chaos when the security staff, later confirmed that they are employees of Lear Asset Management, dragged Teresa Borrenpohl from the Auditorul Coeur d’Alene, after beating. Legisters.

“The lawyer’s office in the prosecutor was moved to reject the citation against Borrenpohl in the interest of justice,” said a press release issued by the Coeur D’Alene Police Department.

As the City Hall began and the legislators made the observations, Borrenpohl said that the public had cheated and threw itself.

“No one told people to cheer themselves from cheer, but every time there was a negative reaction, we were quarreled,” she told the press on Saturday night. “I felt comfortable expressing dissatisfaction, because people expressed their appreciation for the legislators there.”

Borrenpohl said he did not recognize the sheriff of Kootenai County, Bob Norris, in the beginning, when he approached her in the auditor’s semi -detachment, because he was dressed in jeans and a baseball cap.

“I was indeed clogged because he said,” Do you want to spray you with pepper? “, She remembered. “This was the first thing I told me to remember.”

The filming at the event showed that Norris took Borrenpohl’s arm with both hands and made several attempts to pull it from the chair.

Borrenpohl said that, after refusing to leave, Norris appealed to unidentified men and said, “Guys, take it.”

In the video, Borrenpohl can be repeatedly seen asking men to identify. They didn’t do it. She asked Norris if the men were his deputies, and he did not answer.

GOP officials from Kootenai County said on Saturday that they did not know which company provided security for their event and told the press to look for this information from Sheriff.

“Bob (Norris) was right there,” said President Kccc, Brent Regan. “Nothing was done without him being aware.”

Norris denied the knowledge about the security arrangements of the event and said he did not know the security staff.

“The office of the sheriff in Kootenai County is aware of the incident that involved Sheriff Norris at the event of the City Hall on Saturday,” said a press release issued by the Brett Nelson. “For clarifications, there were no deputy sheriffs of Kootenai county or another personnel present or involved in this incident.”

Nelson said that the sheriff’s office will undergo “a complete and independent investigation of the incident conducted by an external agency”.

Norris said that Borrenpohl’s manipulation was in accordance with the protocols that were established before the City Hall began, although he did not explain what the protocols are or who put them.

“(Borrenpohl) was asked to leave,” he said on Sunday. “He was asked to leave.”

With records of Norris and the security agents dealing with Borrenpohl who are widely circulating on social networks, Norris said he has received death threats and believes that the incident is not equitably covered.

“The reaction (security guards) was the action (Borrenpohl),” Norris said. “The reason why this was produced was because people came to disturb.”

In a public post on Facebook, GOP in Kooteai County has echoed the feeling.

“None of this would have happened if Borrenpohl had been respectful of the others,” the post said. “Her failure to respect the simple rules of the decor caused a 18 -minute delay in the meeting and reduced the number of questions to which the legislators had time to answer.”

White said it is not suitable for law enforcement to force a person from a town hall to speak of or shout.

“I don’t care what your message is, especially in a town hall like this,” White said. “We must respect the rights of the first amendment of all, no matter what part of the aisle you happen to. I know that there are some people here who probably don’t agree with me and would like to take action and we may try to silence a voice that is in opposition to theirs at a town hall, but we can do very little in terms of the first amendment. We need to make sure that people offer their protection in accordance with the Constitution. ”

Borrenpohl said he remembers “the hands coming from everywhere” trying to pull it from the chair and push it to the ground. To her left, she said, heard friends who defend her while the people on the aisle looked at her and applauded the men who were trying to get her out of the auditorium.

While the men dragged her on the aisle, Borrenpohl lost her shoe and, at one point, the shirt almost came out.

“He was really violent and truly traumatic,” she said. “They had grabbed my wrists. My body contorted. They lifted me and threw me down. My only thought was to keep my airways. They were forcing me to the ground. I just wanted to make sure I could breathe. ”

Borrenpohl said he had bitten one of the men who were pulling her from Auditorium.

“I didn’t know if I was detained by what I knew now would be the sheriff’s office or if they are privately renting weapons,” she said. “I was so confused and I didn’t know if I was arrested by the sheriff’s office or if I was kidnapped.”

Based on the “limited information” available for the respondent officers at that time, Coeur d’Alene Police mentioned and released Borrenpohl for the battery due to the bite. But since then, investigators have examined more evidence, including video recordings that showed what happened before the officers arrived outside the audience.

Given “all new tests and videos related to the event”, the city’s prosecutors will reject the citation.

White said that his officers refused the sheriff’s request for Borrenpohl to be arrested for violation.

“I informed the sheriff with respect that, as he was opened at the public event, we will not arrest anyone because he has made difficulties,” White said. “That would be inadequate.”

Meanwhile, the city has revoked the business license for the management of Lear assets for violating the city ordinances related to security agencies and agencies.

Coeur D’Alene City Code requires security agents to wear uniforms “clearly marked” with the word “security” in letters no less than 1 centimeter in front and no less than four centimeters high on the back. The security staff at Saturday’s City Hall was in simple clothes, without any visible sign.

When the Coeur D’Alene Local Council approved the uniform requirement last summer, Trouette testified against change.

“Paul Trowerette contacted me and told me that they will not do any such security in our city and yet, here,” White Sunday said.

Norris said he was invited to lead the loyalty commitment to the town hall and remained on the spot after doing so because of a recent threat against representative Jordan Redman, R-Coeur d’Alene.

On Saturday morning, Coeur D’Alene police have investigated a threat against Redman’s office, which originates on social networks. White said that his agency only learned about the town hall, because Redman mentioned it when they talked to him about threat.

The Coeur d’Alene police officers were in the parking lot during the City Hall, if the resident in Shoshone County, who had threatened, said White. When there was a disturbance in the auditorium, no one alerted the officers until after Borrenpohl was removed.

Norris said this is due to the fact that it was not the place of the agency.

“They have no jurisdiction,” he said about the Coeur D’Alene Police Department. “It would not have entered a private event organized in high school, and the person who provides the location gets to establish the protocols of what is happening.”

White pushed him back on Norris’s comment. The Coeur d’Alene High School is in the jurisdiction of his agency, he said, and his officers had entered the building if they were appointed earlier.

“We would have been available to make sure that no one is in danger, at the same time protecting the rights of the first amendment of the people,” he said.

Borrenpohl has applied as a Democrat for a legislative place in 2020, 2022 and 2024. In the last few years, against the backdrop of the Crispy of the North Idaho College, he has vocally criticized three former NIC mandates who were supported by the GOP of Kootenai County.

“I didn’t know if I had the problems to say that Phil Hart has stolen from public countries or if it is because I am a known democrat in the area,” she said.

The City Hall had to be a forum in which the constituents could involve their legislators, Borrenpohl said.

She said she refused this opportunity. Borrenpohl also claims that she has been assaulted.

“I think my civil rights were naked by me at that time in a truly embarrassing way,” she said. “Of course, I spoke from a row. But we live in a country in which you speak from turn, and the result are three men who attack a woman? “

A crowdfunding campaign for Borrenpohl’s legal costs collected more than $ 173,000 until Monday at 17:00, less than 24 hours after the campaign.