The Idaho Office of the Attorney General will not file charges against Kootenai County Sheriff Bob Norris for trying to remove a woman from her seat and for detaining another man in February at a Coeur d’Alene town hall.

In a six-page letter, dated Monday, from Deputy Attorney General Jeff Nye to Kootenai County Prosecuting Attorney Stanley Mortensen, the office wrote it could not prove Norris “acted in bad faith or with malice” at the event.

Norris was captured on video grabbing and tugging the arm of Teresa Borrenpohl, a former Democratic state legislative candidate, and threatening to pepper-spray her if she did not leave because she was yelling at speakers on stage at the Feb. 22 Kootenai County Republican Central Committee town hall at Coeur d’Alene High School.

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