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Woman dragged from the event of the Republican City Hall in Kootenai county in Coeur d’Alene: “Please do not touch me”

Woman dragged from the event of the Republican City Hall in Kootenai county in Coeur d’Alene: “Please do not touch me”

Private Security Dragged Out a Woman Who Had Been Interruption of Kooteii County Republican Central Committee Legislative Hall Saturday as Sheriff Robert Norris Stood by, Video Shows, Spurring a Disagreement the Sheriff and Coeur D’Arne’s Police Chief Over the Fire Fire Fixment Implications of the incident.

Multiple video RECORDS of the incident at Coeur d’Alene High School Show Teresa Borrenpohl, who ran for the room of representatives in Idaho in 2024, 2022 and 2020 as a Democrat, seated in Auditorium, while Boos and Urals burst around.

Brent Regan, the chairman of the Republican Central Committee of Kootenai County, said Borrenpohl = and others shouted six or seven times while speaking the parliamentarians, so he received three warnings to stop the interruption.

“At the beginning of the event, we made an announcement that we must maintain the decor and anyone interrupted or caused a Ruckus is asks to leave,” said Regan, noting that her first “catcall” happened during the invocation of At first.

The video shows that Norris finally approaches Borrenpohl, telling him that he will be arrested if he did not leave the town hall.

“Do you want a pepper spray? Let’s go, “Norris said as he pulled Borrenpoh’s hand with one hand and his shoulder with another.

“Please don’t touch me,” said the post Falls resident as Norris pulled his arm.

The videos show Norris who moves away from and pointing to Borrenpohl and a woman who stands with the interaction, gestures to two men of simple clothes. Regan identified them as a private security employed from Lear Asset Management Inc.

The above video of the altercation at the Saturday City Hall at Coeur D’Alene High School contains profane language.

The mixture took place when several members of the audience chanted “free speech, free expression”, while men faced Borrenpohl, and Ed Bejarana event stood on a podium on stage talking over the on a microphone.

“The reality is that there are a lot of great things that happen, the problem is that we have a lot of rabbits -people who will simply not allow it to be talking,” said Bejarana. “So, the thing is that what I do here is, I simply overcome you because your voice is meaningless now.”

Private security did not identify in Borrenpohl after asking for several times, then refusing to comply with more directives to leave.

Regan said he arranged additional security due to recent online threats against representative Jordan Redman, R-Coeur d’Alene, one of the parliamentarians present at the town hall.

The videos show three men who are fighting with Borrenpohl from her chair and on the ground in the aisle, holding her legs and shoulders as she stretched back. She is drawn again on her chair, where two of the men again force a Borrenpohl who fights again on the floor and keep her on the stomach.

“This man assults me,” she shouted, while Norris was sitting next to him and recorded the scene on his phone.

She grabbed her hands and pulled her into the hall, like a mixture of boos and cheers the audience.

Two police officers Coeur d’Alene later addressed Borrenpohl and the men who dragged them into the hall, still surrounded by people who wear mobile cameras.

Regan said that an “unfortunate” aspect of the scene is the fact that it caused an 18 -minute recession from the town hall, eliminating the time from the constituents who want to hear and address their elected leaders.

“When the microphone was passed between the different legislators, it will shout long and loud to interrupt them,” said Regan.

Borrenpohl refused to comment when he was contacted by phone on Sunday afternoon; Later provided a written statement.

“I could never have imagined my right to free expression and my right to gather could be naked in such a violent way,” she wrote.

She spoke to the press coeur d’alene on Sunday with her story about the incident.

Coeur d’Alene Police quoted and released Borrenpohl for offense battery, because he bitten one of the men while pulling her, she told the press.

The head of the Coeur d’Alene police, Lee White, told the press that the prosecutor’s office will examine the citation after watching the many video recordings that surprise the interaction.

White also told the press that he refused to arrest and prevent Borrenpohl from the town hall, as Norris asked.

Norris could not be made available for comments on Sunday, said a spokesman, but he told his press and manipulating the interaction by the security guards was in accordance with the protocol and the reactive to Borrenpohl’s interruptions.

White did not agree, saying that the elimination of the press is inadequate and mentioned the first amendment for the rights of expression.

Also, the incident has taught disagreements on whose jurisdiction coeur d’Alene High School falls. Due to the online threats towards Redman, the police were outside the event, but was not aware of the incident until after the Security dragged Borrenpohl on the Linoleum floor of the hall. The officers would have answered earlier if they were alerted to chaos, White told the press.

Norris told the press that it is not the jurisdiction of the city police department, but White did not agree, according to the press coeur d’Alene.