from the NYT
The woman had been heckling speakers and speaking out at a town-hall meeting hosted by local Republicans in Coeur d’Alene, a small city in northern Idaho. The local sheriff asked her to leave, even pulling at her arm at one point and threatening to arrest her, according to videos from the event that have been published online.
Next, men wearing black jackets, and not known to be affiliated with local law enforcement, descended upon the woman, pulled her off the chair and to the floor while she cried out, asking who the men were, using an expletive. They eventually dragged her out of the auditorium.
The woman, Teresa Borrenpohl, a former Democratic candidate for state office in Idaho, argued that everyone should be allowed to speak at a local political event. But organizers of the meeting with state legislators, which was hosted by the Kootenai County Republican Central Committee, said that she repeatedly refused to follow the rules...
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