Private security guards seen on video forcibly removing an activist from a February town hall meeting in Idaho have been criminally charged.
On Monday, the Coeur d’Alene City Attorney’s office said that five men associated with a private security firm were facing a range of charges, including battery, false imprisonment and security agent duty violations.
Teresa Borrenpohl was dragged out of the meeting at Coeur d’Alene High School on Feb. 22.
In video shared by meeting organizers, the Kootenai County Republican Central Committee, someone can be heard disrupting the meeting by shouting, “What? Are you serious right now?” about 43 minutes into the town hall while Republican state Rep. Tony Wisniewski was speaking about abortion.
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Employees of a security firm, LEAR Asset Management, drag Teresa Borrenpohl out of a town hall meeting on Feb. 22, 2025, in Post Falls, Idaho. (Hailey Hill/Coeur D’Alene Press via AP, File)
Shortly afterward, the video shows a group of men descending upon Borrenpohl, who is wearing a blue jacket. One man wearing a hat then places his hands on her arm in an attempt to get her to stand.
A second man then shows up, trying to do the same, and Borrenpohl asks, “Who are you?”
After a back and forth confrontation, Borrenpohl shouts, “Excuse me, Sheriff Norris? This gentleman is assaulting me. Is this your deputy?”
Borrenpohl is eventually pulled from her seat, and held on the ground in the auditorium’s aisle while asking the men to identify themselves.
“They’re pulling my hair,” she can be heard saying.
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Coeur d’Alene High School, where the meeting was held. (Google Maps)
Paul Trouette, Russell Dunne, Christofer Berg and Jesse Jones have been charged with misdemeanor battery, false imprisonment, and violations of security agent duties and uniform requirements.
Alex Trouette IV is charged with security agent duties and uniform violations.
All five of the men are associated with the private security firm Lear Asset Management, which had its license revoked by the city after the town hall, the Associated Press reported.
Roughly 450 people attended the legislative town hall, organizers said.
The incident took place at Coeur d’Alene High School on Feb. 22, 2025. (HUM Images/Universal Images Group)
“For clarification, there were no Kootenai County Deputy Sheriff’s or other personnel present at or involved in this incident. The Coeur d’Alene Police Department is handling the criminal investigation regarding this matter,” a February statement from the county sheriff’s office said.
Although the police department did not immediately get back to Fox News Digital, a previous statement read, “The Coeur d’Alene Police Department recognizes and values all rights afforded by the United States Constitution to all citizens, including the right to free speech.”
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Borrenpohl is a Democratic legislative candidate who has run unsuccessfully in the deeply Republican region. She did not immediately respond to a Fox News Digital request for comment, but the AP reports she formally notified Kootenai County officials on Monday of her intent to sue by filing a tort claim notice.
“Town halls are intended to foster conversation and discourse across the aisle, which is why I am deeply alarmed that private security dragged me out of the public meeting for simply exercising my fundamental right of free speech,” Borrenpohl said in a Monday media release obtained by the AP.
The Associated Press contributed to this report.
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ANCHORAGE, AK (Alaska’s News Source) – A large winter storm is not only bringing heavy snowfall, but warmer temperatures are approaching! The most impacted areas will include Southcentral, Southeast, and Southwest Alaska, with close to a foot of snow accumulation likely through Tuesday afternoon.
Anchorage will receive a trace of snow overnight and into the early morning hours with about 1 to 3 inches of snow by early Monday afternoon. Close to 5 inches of snow will fall across the Kenai Peninsula and Copper River Basin by Monday afternoon before Tuesday morning brings closer to a foot of snow accumulation across the region. Anchorage and Mat-Su snow totals by Tuesday morning will likely reach 8 to 10 inches.
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Juneau will most likely get the heaviest rounds of snow from this storm system with close to a foot of snow likely to accumulate by Monday afternoon with even more snow Tuesday morning. Across Southeast, snow total will vary but Sitka and Ketchikan will receive near 3 to 7 inches. Brace for a few days of heavy snowfall with wind gusts up to 30 miles per hour. Rapid snow accumulation will add hazard to roads and rooftops so be vigilant and weather aware.
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This storm is already making landfall from the Kuskokwim Delta to Bristol Bay. Expect 8 to 16 inches of snow by Monday night as the heaviest rounds will pass over late Monday morning. Wind gusts up to 40 miles per hour will add blizzard-like conditions with reduced visibility. The Aleutian Chain is bracing for high winds as the gusts up to 70 miles per hour are likely tomorrow. Light rain will pass through as a result of residual moisture of the tail-end of this storm.
The Interior will remain mostly dry tomorrow with mostly cloudy skies stretching over the Brooks Range and into the North Slope. Overnight lows are still quite chilly, sitting near 50 and 60 below zero. Coldest temperatures of the season were record Sunday morning at -50 degrees in Fairbanks, being the coldest temperature since February 2024 which was also -50 degrees. Light snow is possible Tuesday, but otherwise, very calm and quiet weather remains across central and northern Alaska.
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In 2023, Colorado produced 13.9 metric tons of carbon dioxide emissions per capita. If it had been ranked by the World Bank during the same year, Colorado would have placed 14th among the more than 200 countries on the list, just behind Canada, at 14.1, and just ahead of the U.S. as a whole, at 13.7.
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