A woman was harassed, mocked, threatened with pepper spray, and violently dragged across the floor of a Republican town hall meeting by a group of men because she spoke during Rep. Ron Mendive’s address.

Multiple video recordings of the incident at Coeur d'Alene High School show Teresa Borrenpohl dragged out of the auditorium by two men in plain clothes.

The woman refused to leave the meeting after speaking out against the possible repeal of Medicaid expansion and other bills working their way through the Idaho Legislature.

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.

Kootenai County Sheriff Bob Norris and others at the Coeur d'Alene town hall will be investigated by an outside agency after a woman was dragged out of the event.

A woman resisted as three men claiming to be security lifted her out of her seat, bent her arm, and removed her from a Republican-hosted public forum.

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