KOOTENAI COUNTY, Idaho — On Tuesday evening, the Kootenai County Republican Central Committee held it’s first meeting since a woman was dragged out of their town hall over the weekend.
Every chair was full for the Tuesday night meeting, leaving many attendees standing.
KCRCC said they hired extra security for the regularly scheduled meeting due to what they called “heightened security risks” prompted by Saturday’s incident.
“Several of our members, myself included, received death threats,” said KCRCC Chair, Brent Regan.
The death threats started after a video was posted to social media of Dr. Teresa Borrenpohl being forcibly removed from a KCRCC meeting by two security guards on February 22.
The video went viral and garnered national attention. Thousands showed their support for Borrenpohl, arguing the way she was treated was a violation of her first amendment rights.
A GoFundMe created for her legal expenses quickly surpassed it’s $30,000 goal and, as of Tuesday, has raised over $260,000 from roughly 9,000 donors from around the world.
Regan and other members and supporters of KCRCC said Borrenpohl was asked to leave multiple times for disrupting the event.
“Mrs. Borroenpohl, I think was on camera at least seven times, interrupting the speaker, but she already warned her at least three times, and then the sheriff was there, and he went up to her and he said, ‘[you] really need to leave,’ and he asked her to leave four or five times,” Regan said.
He said that it was not KCRCC who violated her rights, but rather, Borrenpohl who violated the rights of those in attendance.
“Borrenpohl was violating everybody else’s rights. You know, they call that a ‘heckler’s veto,’ where the heckler doesn’t allow anybody else to talk or hear. There’s 450 people there and they all have rights,” he said.
Since Saturday, the private security company that worked the town hall, Lear Asset Management, had their business license suspended.
Coeur d’Alene Police Department is conducting an investigation and Borrenpohl is said to be pursuing legal representation.
Kootenai County Sheriff Bob Norris has not yet released a statement about his involvement in the incident, but Regan said he welcomes an investigation.
“I think it’s a great idea, because it’s going to show that [Sheriff Norris] didn’t do anything wrong,” he said.
Norris is still the active Sheriff and has not been placed on administrative leave.
There was a brief mention of Saturday’s incident during Tuesday night’s meeting, but a majority of the discussion revolved around current agenda items. The meeting was held without interruption.
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