security firm that dragged a woman out of a town hall has its license revoked

[moonshinegnomie]

the woman has started a gofundme to sue.
since the sheriff that dragged her out wasnt operaing in any official capacity he has no immunity.
I hope him and the security firm get sued into abject poverty.

https://www.ktvb.com/article/news/local/woman-forcibly-removed-from-kootenai-county-republican-town-hall-idaho-politics/277-904f755d-05f6-4822-9592-ec41dc030df3

[magicarpet]

1. Freedumb of speech, "cept when my jackboot ...

..... is standing on your throat.

[bucolic_frolic]

2. Sheriff should know legal liability better than his behaviour indicates

No excuses. Sue the pants off him!

[UpInArms]

3. He's a fukking liar

"Nobody knew who these people were that were assaulting her and pulling her away," said Sines-Kermelis. "They would not identify themselves, and nobody would say who they were."

According to KREM, Sheriff Norris, who was present to lead the Pledge of Allegiance, said he stepped away during the incident to escort another person out due to what he described as an "active threat" against one of the legislators. He said Borrenpohl was already on the ground when he returned.

KTVB obtained a video that shows Sheriff Norris directly in front of Borrenpohl, grabbing her and telling her to leave before directing the unnamed "security" to remove her:

Video at link in OP

[GB_RN]

26. You'd Think...

However, as sheriffs are generally an elected position, rather than hired like police chiefs, we get the sheriffs we deserve.

[Attilatheblond]

37. In some rural areas, you get the sheriff who runs for office. Some places, it's a job nobody but idiots want

Been there, lived thru that. Some counties just too small to have a talent pool of good candidates, or ANY candidates. Too easy for a county to end up with a jack ass who thinks he's staring in a western.

[brakester]

56. This is eerily reminiscent of

Seattle where there were thugs with no badges or name tags, dragging innocent marchers off the street and taking them away in non-marked cars.

Also like Nazi Germany where they had ruffians beating up innocents in the streets to cause confusion and fear.

[LetMyPeopleVote]

4. Has charges been dismissed?

This poor lady was charged

Link to tweet

Idaho woman asked Republican legislators not to cut Medicaid — she was wrestled to ground & dragged out of town hall.

"Look at this little girl over here, everyone. Look at her!" the speaker pointed.

"Women deserve a voice!" Teresa Borrenpohl cried as 3 unidentified men dragged her out of the high school auditorium.

In the video, Kootenai County Sheriff Bob Norris is seen telling her to "get up or be arrested."

Teresa Borrenpohl was cited for trespassing & battery by Coeur d’Alene Police.

[Moostache]

24. Why the fuck did one of them have zip ties out at a town hall?

Seriously, the war is started, we just don't have enough people fighting in it.
We will have no choice soon enough, but I will NEVER capitulate to VICHY-USA or worship at the altar of MAGAts.

Fuck DJT and all the rest of them.

[johnnyfins]

35. My question exactly

Zip ties? Did you get a look at that moran holding them?

They are drooling at the prospect of violence from the left. They better be careful what they wish for. People are pissed off. There are actual crazy people in that number, for whatever reason. I mean, this is America.

[OhioBack2Blue]

41. The war is started

Unfortunately, yes.

[bdamomma]

49. If they keep

on stealing from us, we will take our numbers in the streets. They are doing things illegally. Fuck them.

[EdmondDantes_]

31. Per this article the charge of battery is being dismissed

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/idaho-woman-forcibly-dragged-local-republican-town-hall-private-securi-rcna193477

Coeur d'Alene Police Department Sgt. Jared Reneau told NBC News that there was never a citation for trespassing and that prosecutors moved to dismiss the battery citation on Monday.

[LetMyPeopleVote]

62. Here is statement from city police

I am glad that charges were dropped but these security assholes need to be prosecuted and sued

Link to tweet

[bee_peaceful]

65. Who was the speaker? NT

[tishaLA]

5. Even the police chief has criticized both the security firm and the sheriff.

He said that people may not like it, but people have a first amendment and they don't have to be polite when they're using it

[NJCher]

38. right

You can even lie your ass off to your constituency, get elected on false pretenses, and it all falls under "freedom of speech" and "caveat emptor."

Freedom of speech is for everybody, Sheriff.

[obamanut2012]

6. She needs to sue and also try and get assault and kidnapping charges pressed

[OhioBack2Blue]

42. Yes she does...

Hopefully, that incident dragged any last remnants of the terrible disease called "midwest nice" out of her.

SUE THEM!

If not for yourself, then for the rest of us and to teach them a lesson they will not soon forget.

[duhneece]

7. Our county lost a lawsuit for removing a man

He won $45,000 from our county.
Couy Griffin, of Cowboys for Trump ( and the only Jan 6 defendant who can never run for any office in the US) kicked him out.
https://www.aclu-nm.org/en/press-releases/otero-county-resident-wins-settlement-unlawful-silencing-ejection-public-meetings

[NJCher]

39. we all owe a debt to

Matthew Crecelius. He objected to their phony audit, which I recall reading about and thinking what a waste of taxpayer dollars it was, and he also spoke out against book banning.

And this was the third time they threw him out of the council meeting for speaking up!!!

[Clouds Passing]

40. What's that little coy creep up to these days?

[duhneece]

71. He and Jake Lang were kicked out of CPAC

He’s working at a place fixing golf carts here in town (Alamogordo ).

[Clouds Passing]

79. Would not trust him with my golf cart, if I had one

What craziness got them kicked out of Npac?

[duhneece]

80. Apparently not all J6ers were welcome

He’s blocked me in, with the help of Magistrate Judge… I reported it but got nothing.

[Figarosmom]

8. Good

I'll donate

Can't find a link to donate.

But the article said she was charged with assault, what I saw was her being assaulted.

[RobertDevereaux]

13. https://www.gofundme.com/f/justice-for-dr-borrenpohl-fight-for-the-first

https://www.gofundme.com/f/justice-for-dr-borrenpohl-fight-for-the-first

[Figarosmom]

20. Thanks

[3Hotdogs]

22. I would not contribute to this.

First of all, she has raised over $100k. That is more than any lawyer would want for a retainer.

Secondly, this is a case for damages. Most lawyers would take it on a contingency basis, requiring a few thousand dollars for initial expenses, if even that.


I don't begrudge her the money. Just that it is not needed for that purpose.

[Wuddles440]

32. Well, that's certainly your propagative,...

but to some of us it's simply a matter of principle to support those exercising their free speech. Especially so with this fascist regime and their MAGAT acolytes because such a freedom may not exist in the very near future.

[3Hotdogs]

55. Then donate to A.C.L.U. or Act Blue.

[Wuddles440]

67. We already generously do so...

and will continue donating to any organizations and causes that we deem worthy of our support.

[Bengus81]

81. I'm sure most people know that about the amount raised but it's about making a strong point

I'll donate $10...again to to make a point that this shit shouldn't happen.

[tishaLA]

9. If you want to have a good laugh, go to the security firm's website

It's LEAR Asset Management. Their site presents them as fantastically well-trained and professional, and even touts their services for VIPs and "dignitaries." As if.

https://www.learasset.com/index.html

Yes, I spent way too much time reading up on this story last night. The worst part -- OK, maybe not the worst, but most depressing part -- was that a bunch of the town hall attendees applauded when they dragged the woman out. Imaging the wall to wall coverage it would have gotten on FNC if any tea partier in 2009 had been dragged out like that. (And frankly, progressive media hasn't covered this with the same vigor we'd see on the other side.)

[canetoad]

33. And they have

A Yahoo email address. Very professional.

[NJCher]

45. they are unabashed

about plastering it right on the front page. Under their badge. These LEO-wannabes just love those badges.

[NJCher]

46. well, I see they can't spell

so I'm not surprised: personnell, LOL.

I'd like to take them a bucket load of dashes, but I'm pretty sure they wouldn't know where to put them.

[MMBeilis]

77. I particularly like that they have "Air and Ground Assets" to provide "Fast Response Mobilization".

[Iris]

10. Anyone have a link to her go fund me?

[Iris]

14. Found it - link below.

https://gofund.me/f5a692ab

[DENVERPOPS]

11. Believe me

all over again, this is just the start.

Recall the unmarked, full military garb people they brought to the Portland incidents. no badges, no agency name, nothing.
Later found to be Border Patrol from the Mexican border......

[RobertDevereaux]

12. Here is the GO FUND ME

https://www.gofundme.com/f/justice-for-dr-borrenpohl-fight-for-the-first

[Gaugamela]

15. Gofundme link:

The woman’s name is Dr. Teresa Borrenpohl.

The goal is $30,000. As of this posting over $161,000 has been raised.

https://www.gofundme.com/f/justice-for-dr-borrenpohl-fight-for-the-first

[calimary]

23. EXCELLENT!!!

[Cirsium]

16. Assault

They should be charged with assault.

[Meowmee]

17. Good!!

[Baitball Blogger]

18. It was a townhall. Other people were doing the same thing.

Why did they pick on her?

[Aussie105]

19. You need a licence to be a goon?

All this red tape! /sarcasm

From the go fund me web page:

"5.1K people have just made a donation. Total $165K so far."

[homegirl]

25. That's going

to pay for very qualified legal representation!

[orleans]

21. best fucking news i've had all day! thanks for posting this. nt

[Paladin]

27. Outstanding! (nt)

[Buddyzbuddy]

28. Maybe some justice.

[Karasu]

29. Wow. When I first heard this story I was actually under the impression it was just some random fucking conservative,

not an actual security firm.

[NJCher]

47. don't give them too much credit

see comments upthread on their yahoo email address, their spelling, and their lack of punctuation.

[Karasu]

58. ...Oh boy.

Fucking figures. LOL

[Initech]

30. Good! Fuck those psychos!

[Dem2theMax]

34. I read some of the comments on GoFundMe.

Brought tears to my eyes to see people from other countries donating. Nice to know that they realize it isn't all Americans. It's just the evil ones who are trying to take us down. (And the ones who have their heads in the sand, refusing to see or hear the truth.)

[Wonder Why]

36. Idaho. What else would you expect?

[Norrrm]

43. Unmarked goons for security. A sign of things to come.

Intimidation.

[hatrack]

72. Death squads in embryonic form . . .

And no, it won't take much.

After all, Duh Grate Leedur bailed out over 1,000 of their buddies for attacking and beating police, so what's a little stochastic murder among friends?

[G_j]

44. I found it disturbing that

the audience meekly sat by.

[NJCher]

48. absolutely

eom

[G_j]

50. I once helped teach

nonviolent methods of civil disobedience.
In a situation like this, there are ways a crowd can “unarrest” someone. I can’t believe the guy who just got out of his seat and let them grab her.

[NJCher]

52. one of the sad things we are finding

in this debacle with trump, which I do believe will be over soon, is that Americans don't know much about their Constitution or their rights in a democracy.

When trump first started with his executive orders, he had America in a panic. People were terrified.

In my house, where we are fairly sophisticated about the law, we just laughed at the idiot and predicted a flood of lawsuits. And what has happened? A flood of lawsuits.

What is even more incomprehensible is that we have a "president" who doesn't even know the basics of the law! And his right-hand goon doesn't, either. Musk was indignant that they had to face up to the courts. They attacked judicial authority!

It's like they never heard of the division of power designed by our country's founders.

[G_j]

53. It's true

I’m hoping people will continue to empower themselves, act and resist and thus understand “what democracy looks like”.
The richest man in the world is still my equal according to the constitution.

[Attilatheblond]

57. Musk probably figures 'I paid good money and I own this country now, stop trying to get in my way, peons!'

[HeartsCanHope]

61. There were a few people that spoke up, both men and women.

I wish they had done more to stop them, though. Might have been intimidated by the Sheriff standing there filming!

[bee_peaceful]

66. Reminiscent of George Floyd... NT

[Blue Owl]

51. I also hope Chris Kluwe sues the fuck outta the fucks that arrested him

Simply for telling the truth — that MAGA IS NAZI

[malthaussen]

54. Jolly good.

About time to see somebody actually suffer some material consequences for their unlawful acts.

I suppose DJT will demand that the license be restored.

-- Mal

[Dark n Stormy Knight]

59. GOOD!!!

In this world deeply lacking in justice, I celebrate every instance of it prevailing.

[HeartsCanHope]

60. Her assault was a disgusting display of hate and misogny.

Thank for the link to her GoFundMe to assist her in litigation--I'm in! Can she also go after the idiot at the microphone egging them on? Wanted to kick him so hard he would be a permanent falsetto!

[LetMyPeopleVote]

63. Statement from local police

[no_hypocrisy]

64. Same MO as union-busting companies perpetrated upon union members

100+ years ago. Hire goons to do their dirty work.

[Wonder Why]

68. It's kidnapping!

[4catsmom]

69. the politician who was speaking

bears some responsibility. He could have handled the situation so differently. He should be sued at least

[mucholderthandirt]

70. So, for anyone who still thinks we live in America, wake up. That dream has gone, we are left with this.

And it will only get worse, as more jobs are delated or taken by unqualified, un-American, liberty-hating morons and tech bros.

Welcome to the gulag, folks.

[MontanaMama]

73. Every single one of us, in this moment,

should have a plan regarding what we will do when we personally witness violence. What we will do, how we can assist a victim, how we will bear witness. People just sat and watched this whole thing go down. A man sitting next to Dr. Borrenpohl got up at the request of the thugs so that they could have better access to her. They would have had a harder time had he stayed in his seat and refused to move. That takes personal courage.

It's easy to say what we would do in a situation like this and it’s harder to stand up that one might think when faced with violence. Think about it…make a plan.

[Passages]

74. Me too.

Fantastic news.

[2naSalit]

75. I hope she wins a massive settlement.

[sop]

76. At the link: "There were many more people than Borrenpohl who had outbursts with varying viewpoints,

but only those who disagreed with the Republican legislators faced consequences." And "It was evident that dissent was not being tolerated, and would not be acceptable."

Obviously, local law enforcement won't do anything to stop this sort of thing; they're usually part of the problem. Civil suits are the only (legal) way for Americans to make sure these people suffer consequences for their actions. Sue the motherfuckers.

[LetMyPeopleVote]

78. Teresa Borrenpohl was hospitalized after interrupting a Kootenai County Republican Town Hall to ask questions

Link to tweet

Teresa Borrenpohl was hospitalized after interrupting a Kootenai County Republican Town Hall to ask questions about Medicaid & Reproductive Rights.

Sheriff Bob Norris and 3 security guards zip tied and removed her.

Drop a 💙 for Teresa. Be inspired to pick up the phone today☎️

[LetMyPeopleVote]

82. This is what fascism looks like. 😳👇

Link to tweet