HIRED THUGS This Shocking Moment at a GOP Town Hall in Idaho Is a Foreboding Sign Private, unidentified security personnel dragged a woman out of the event. It raises questions not just about tolerance for dissent but about who gets deputized to do what. newrepublic.com/article/1919... - ThreadSky

democracyblue.bsky.social • 3 days ago

HIRED THUGS
This Shocking Moment at a GOP Town Hall in Idaho Is a Foreboding Sign
Private, unidentified security personnel dragged a woman out of the event. It raises questions not just about tolerance for dissent but about who gets deputized to do what. https://newrepublic.com/article/191908/gop-town-hall-idaho-lear?utm_source=newsletter

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carolyn10.bsky.social•3 days ago

There were reports of this kind of thuggery among the 2016 delegates.

aeroweld.bsky.social•3 days ago

She needs to file a criminal complaint with the State Police if the local police will not do it. Not sure how Idaho is structured. Also, file civil lawsuits on everyone who put theirs hands on her!!! This is NOT ok & it should not go unpunished!! 🤬

aeroweld.bsky.social•3 days ago

AND dox them all!!

jackiemcd.bsky.social•3 days ago

City police chief is not happy with how this was handled. He is not pursuing charges against her and revoked license of security company. It was a public meeting and Chief recognized she had rights. Not everyone in Idaho are like some of these folks.

joanbandy.bsky.social•3 days ago

Well, if you watch the whole clip it wasn’t clear what kind of meeting it was intended to be, a listening meeting (lecture format) or a town hall meeting. Even at that, yelling over the speaker from the back is not acceptable public etiquette & there seemed to be no system for public participation.

nlsartroom.bsky.social•3 days ago

I don’t care what king of meeting it was! What gives someone the right to put their f’ing hands on her and drag her out against her will? Yes, watch the whole clip, and other clips, and you’ll see ASSAULT as well as BULLYING from the disgusting speaker! ANYONE WHO THINKS THIS IS OK, F/YOURSELVES!

joanbandy.bsky.social•3 days ago

None of it was handled well, that’s for sure.

jellyfrog23.bsky.social•3 days ago

There were lots of people yelling. She was the only one who was physically dragged out.

joanbandy.bsky.social•3 days ago

The clip I saw she was the ringleader. Others were just responding to her. I was seeing it as an against women speaking thing. Then I saw she was a political candidate. None of it was handled well, that’s for sure.

jellyfrog23.bsky.social•3 days ago

She yelled like two things and then stopped. She was sitting quietly when they grabbed her. But yeah, the Sheriff singled her out because he knew who she was; it was less about what she was *doing* in that meeting, more that she was there at all. Fortunately, the actual police were outside.

treedyan.bsky.social•3 days ago

They made an example of her, likely because she was a well-known local political candidate. Shameful.

joanbandy.bsky.social•3 days ago

I hadn’t heard that.

alberta77.bsky.social•2 days ago

"Well".....like Ronald Reagan used to say.....welcome to Idaho. A State renown for its "christian values" & oh yeah, almost forgot....White Christian Nationalism. NOT a State to visit.

gnosticgoblin.bsky.social•3 days ago

Shadows of Donbas

4freewmnrageon.bsky.social•3 days ago

I watched that. No identification, no credentials.
Just 3 alpha man/ boys
I hope she sues.
I would have gotten arrested by real cops. Those guys would have gone from altos to suprano awfully quick.

skrudumra.bsky.social•3 days ago

Politics is war without violence. War is violence without politics. Keep this in mind going forward.

deevhutch.bsky.social•3 days ago

I suppose they should just cut to the chase and issue these thugs brown shirts with some kind of symbol on them that shows allegiance to Musk/Trump

amyippoliti.bsky.social•3 days ago

People in the room needed to physically put their bodies on the line to defend her. The deer in the headlights response was not OK!

nlsartroom.bsky.social•3 days ago

How the hell is this not plastered all over the national news??? WTF???

khdis.bsky.social•3 days ago

Wondering the same thing. Not a single line in The NY Times or WaPo.

khdis.bsky.social•2 days ago

There is a video in the Times today, sort of buried at the bottom of the online page.

franklyginger.bsky.social•3 days ago

“Sheriff Norris “claimed no knowledge of the security personnel or who hired them.”” That explains why he allowed them to push her to the floor and carry her out of the room? Total BS, the man was completely complicit in the unlawful actions.

russwhite5052.bsky.social•3 days ago

heathermatz.bsky.social•3 days ago

What happened to the Flight 93 mentality? Now we’re overrun with cowards who call themselves Alpha Males.

tracykakes.bsky.social•3 days ago

exactly. where were all the men who go on about their duty to protect women? I noticed even the few people speaking up against it were all women.

aumakua13.bsky.social•3 days ago

Absolutely disgusting. There is a GoFund me acct. to help her sue her attackers. A Deputy stood by and watched. No one came to her aid. Shameful.

rlab53.bsky.social•3 days ago

The worst part of this is the lack of action from the other people in the room who let this happen unchallenged.

newbandy15.bsky.social•3 days ago

Nazi tactics

lynnzummo.bsky.social•3 days ago

She’s going to have one hell of a lawsuit against them. So shameful.

doncomer.bsky.social•3 days ago

Trump's Brownshirts.

warrenyeager.bsky.social•3 days ago

This was a travesty indeed, but wouldn't have been any better if it were done by sanctioned law enforcement.

We have to go to these town halls en masse and prepared to defend ourselves and our fellows.

goingforward25.bsky.social•3 days ago

Criminals

katieburbank.bsky.social•3 days ago

Ladies, be ready- if this happens in my presence I’ll Attack.

pms210.bsky.social•3 days ago

If a politician who hires private security to intervene at a town hall meeting, (s)he knows that what (s)he stands for is wrong. It also shows that ones they got our votes they don’t give a 💩. This is telling and should be a clear sign for every voter.

tofliesure.bsky.social•3 days ago

They were either SS, or Gestapo.

regulator1.bsky.social•3 days ago

Everyone around sat compliant instead of standing up. A microcosm of the mass fear gripping the majority

cailis.bsky.social•3 days ago

not really- the ppl around her were magats and most of them were cheering on her assault bc Idaho is full of white supremacists
a few other ppl who dared to speak up were also kicked out

thebriandavidson.bsky.social•3 days ago

Trial lawyer of 25 years+ here. I’ve seen all the video of the incident. Sue them all. Sue them today. Sue them tomorrow. Sue the security company. Sue the venue. Sue the congressman. Sue anyone linked to the use of these thugs. Let’s get some discovery done. Let’s take some video depositions.

leetie60.bsky.social•3 days ago

Who can afford all that though?

thebriandavidson.bsky.social•3 days ago

Trial lawyers routinely handle these types of cases on a contingency fee.

brbrnss.bsky.social•3 days ago

She's raised over $200,000 on go fund me.

1fitter.bsky.social•3 days ago

They need to oust that chickenshit of a sheriff. And let this be a lesson to everyone for what is approaching. 1933 germany.

stephaniea2025.bsky.social•2 days ago

I hope she sues them.

scottmcmurrey.bsky.social•3 days ago

These thugs are reprehensible. And so are their voters.

cgdavidb.bsky.social•3 days ago

This is just the beginning

4susulli.bsky.social•3 days ago

And so it needs to END!!

cgdavidb.bsky.social•3 days ago

It needs to get worse before it gets better. The leopards need to eat a LOT more faces first

phillie717.bsky.social•3 days ago

This is the sad truth.

merwingallery.bsky.social•3 days ago

Simple. Bullies and thugs who have burned their bridges and can't get hired anywhere else.

jellyfrog23.bsky.social•3 days ago

The sheriff who sicced the private security guys on the woman claimed that he didn't hire them and didn't know who did, probably bc he knew they were breaking the law — which requires private security to wear clothing that says in big white letters, "SECURITY".

phillie717.bsky.social•3 days ago

He posted on his FB page where some other Nazi said you would be removed and it wasnt his fault. No accountability these Rapist loving magats.

jellyfrog23.bsky.social•3 days ago

And the owner of that particular private security company argued against the law before it was passed, so it was definitely not an oversight. This company (and the sheriff, apparently) believe they shouldn't have to follow the law.

digsjazzalot.bsky.social•3 days ago

I heard she happens to be a physician? The brown shirts are here.

carlagmail.bsky.social•3 days ago

📌

glen2.bsky.social•3 days ago

Fascist stormtroopers....literally! Shades of Hitler's brownshirts....

lldemats.bsky.social•3 days ago

We might not see tanks in the street or soldiers on every street corner. But this is the fascist shit that we will certainly see, what with the baboon level intelligence of small town sheriffs.