The legislative town hall organized by the Kootenai County Republican Central Committee and held in the Coeur d’Alene High School auditorium devolved into chaos when Kootenai County’s sheriff first took Borrenpohl by the arm and attempted to pull her from her seat when she declined to leave the event for speaking out of turn.

A Republican-hosted legislative town hall meeting in northern Idaho became turbulent after three plainclothes security workers forcibly removed a woman who was heckling the speakers.