A St. Louis County police union official has labeled people protesting the Michael Brown shooting as “agitators.”
“We saw in the wake of the Michael Brown Ferguson shooting that there was a public outcry fueled largely by agitators,” Jeff Roorda, business manager for the St. Louis Police Officers Association, told reporters while commenting on forensic findings in another St. Louis County police shooting.
http://www.cnn.com/2014/10/14/us/st-louis-officer-shooting/index.html?hpt=hp_t2
Of course, Roorda has free speech rights like everyone else, and can say whatever he likes about the demonstrations in Ferguson against police abuse of citizens. There’s no law against calling citizens exercising their First Amendment rights (as he just did) “agitators.” But that doesn’t mean he isn’t being a jerk, although I wouldn’t call him that. I’d call him an agitator.