“The vision of the Kootenai County Sheriff’s Office is to protect and serve our community with professionalism, integrity, and compassion.”

I love these bullshit mission statements. They come in handy when you find the top dog screwing someone over and revealing who he really is.

Northern Idaho is a mecca for retired LA cops and sheriffs. Here is a good example of how some of them can despoil a beautiful part of the country after their stints in LA. An interesting add-on to the hateful white supremacists who also like that part of the Pacific Northwest.

Kootenai County Sheriff Bob Norris made news recently when he assisted thugs working for “Lear Asset International” in dragging a woman exercising her First Amendment rights out of a Republican town hall meeting.

https://www.spokesman.com/stories/2025/feb/24/two-days-after-a-woman-was-dragged-from-a-coeur-da

https://www.idahostatesman.com/news/local/community/boise/article300919084.html

Norris is a retired LA County sheriff deputy who has received $180,000-plus in disability payments, some for shoulder injuries sustained while working in LA.

https://lamag.com/news/educator-dragged-from-idaho-town-hall-on-orders-of-ex-la-sheriffs-deputy-collecting-150k-in-disability

Your shoulders seem to be in pretty goddamn good working order there, Bob, as you help manhandle this woman out of her seat.

Not content to settle for a desk job that complies with disability payment parameters, he had private security thugs from Lear Asset Management there to join in the fun.

https://www.learasset.com/about.html

Offering real tools for high-risk security solutions, like the above videotaped situation, Lear Asset notes that “[i]n security, weapons are not the real threat; they change. It’s the mindset of the threat that we help identify and mitigate.”

Mindset. The mindset of the Kootenai County Sheriff’s Department is pretty obvious.

Lear’s provision of Mind Police/thugs for these dangerous town hall situations has been curtailed since this incident, as the beautiful city of Coeur d’Alene has revoked its business license.

https://cdapress.com/news/2025/feb/25/coeur-dalene-prosecutors-dismiss-citation-against-woman-dragged-from-town-hall-city-revokes-security-companys-business-license

You made the national news, Bob! Hopefully he has a subscription and can read the comments to this article in The Washington Post.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/2025/02/24/idaho-protest-woman-removed-town-hall/47621efe-f2dc-11ef-acb5-08900d482a27_story.html

Most sheriffs are politicians, not cops. The guy will probably still be reelected and still receive his disability on top of his pension and his Idaho salary. Keep making Idaho great again, Bob. The bar is pretty low where you now live.

**Update 4/19/25–Some of these fucksticks have been charged. The sheriff was not charged. “Involved, but not a suspect.”

Here are their Names/Charges.

– Paul Trouette – Battery, false imprisonment, security agent uniform violation, security agent duties violation 

– Alex Trouette IV – Security agent uniform violation, security agent duties violation 

– Russell Dunne – Battery, false imprisonment, security agent uniform violation, security agent duties violation 

– Christofer Berge – Battery, false imprisonment, security agent uniform violation, security agent duties violation 

– Jesse Jones – Battery, false imprisonment, security agent uniform violation, security agent duties violation 

– Michael Keller – Battery

Taking the easy way out.

A man in his 40’s “befriended” a 13-year-old girl online, arranged a meeting, kidnapped her and took her to a home in Detroit. Thankfully, the girl was somehow able to contact her family and police were summoned. When police arrived, the suspect ran into a back room and shot himself. He didn’t get the job done.

https://www.fox2detroit.com/news/man-accused-kidnapping-garden-city-girl-he-met-social-media-taking-her-detroit-home

A suicide attempt to avoid arrest or prosecution may in some circumstances reveal a defendant’s consciousness of guilt, which is a question for the jury.

On the other hand, if the defendant commits suicide on the heels of an arrest for CSC with a minor under 13, for example, the inference of guilt becomes essentially meaningless, especially if the facts of the case are hidden from the public. Isn’t that right, Oakland County Sheriff’s Department?

Sometimes it’s a two-fer. It shows that retired law enforcement can indeed be credibly charged with a sex crime (and that it’s not always some “crazy” mother making false charges) and it shows evidence of guilt. In some cases, it might even reveal special treatment. Know what I mean?