A Republican-hosted legislative town hall meeting in northern Idaho descended into chaos after three plainclothes security workers forcibly removed a woman who was heckling the speakers. The incident Saturday at Coeur d’Alene High School,

Three men physically removed her. Police confirmed the organizers hired Lear Asset Management security; the city has since revoked its business license.

Private security dragged out a woman who had been interrupting a Kootenai County Republican Central Committee legislative town hall Saturday as Sheriff Robert Norris stood by, video shows, spurring a disagreement between the sheriff and Coeur d'Alene's police chief over the First Amendment implications of the incident.

Idaho Republican town hall meeting descends into chaos after private security guards forcibly remove heckling woman - Teresa Borrenpohl was dragged out of a County Republican Central Committee meeting

Coeur d’Alene police officers were in the parking lot at CHS during the town hall in case the Shoshone County resident who allegedly made the threat appeared, White said. When there was a disturbance in the auditorium, no one alerted the officers until after Borrenpohl had been removed.

An Idaho woman was forcibly removed from a town hall meeting and later hospitalized after she protested against cuts to Medicaid.