Here's one angle of how Roorda destroyed the meeting.







Here's how Cachet Currie, speaking to KMOV, describes the assault:



"I was literally just trying to leave the meeting and I got caught in whatever Roorda and Kennedy had going on in their exchange," said Currie. "Roorda just jumped out into the aisle, pushed me over, and tried to get to Kennedy. I'm like 'wait a minute, don't push me.' Then he started going off on me, pushing me.”

“As I tried to exit the aisle I was in, the woman was standing in the way,” Roorda said. “She began elbowing me and pushing, trying to keep me from getting out. As I tried to exit, she continued to do that."







Here's a closeup screenshot of Roorda grabbing Currie by the arm while a shocked onlooker reaches to grab her from Roorda's grip.



But here's what we know—Jeff Roorda didn't come in peace. He came to city hall wearing an "I Am Darren Wilson" bracelet guaranteed to incite frustration and anger in a crowd he had to know would be deeply offended by such an outrageous and completely unnecessary gesture. Mind you, the Department of Justice wrote a detailed letter requesting that St. Louis police no longer wear these bracelets.



In 2001, he was fired as a police officer in the St. Louis suburb of Arnold, Missouri, for falsifying reports in 1997 and again in 2001. Roorda lost an appeal of his termination in the Missouri Court of Appeals in 2004 when it was deemed that he did indeed falsify reports. In spite of being fired for police misconduct in 2001, Roorda was hired as chief of police in neighboring Kimmswick, Missouri, the following year.

Two years later, in 2004, Roorda ran for and won a seat in the Missouri state House of Representatives, where he soon was placed on the statewide Public Safety Committee. In 2005, Roorda wrote House Bill 396, which would allow police officers to—and this is an exact quote from his bill—"collect hazardous samples without court approval, document and then destroy them, and make them admissible." While it didn't pass, it is a shocking peek into the mind of Roorda 10 years ago.

In 2012, Governor Jay Nixon campaigned for Roorda.

In 2013, police assaulted a teenager in handcuffs, but were found not guilty—with the support of Roorda, working in a new capacity as an executive with the St. Louis police union. Here's the awful video and outrageous comments made by Roorda.



In early 2014, Roorda wrote and sponsored House Bill 1466, which would change the Missouri sunshine laws requiring open records on police-involved incidents. Roorda's bill would seal all records involving any/every police action and prohibit police departments from releasing the names of officers involved in shootings.

Filed exactly one week after the murder of Brown, Roorda is listed as vice president of the charity behind the Darren Wilson fundraiser. In spite of Roorda supporting the Wilson fundraisers during a tumultuous time for the state and a new spotlight on Roorda's troubled past, Nixon, in September 2014 campaigned again for Roorda.

Also in September 2014, Roorda continued to speak out against the use of dash cameras and body cameras worn by police officers. And after demanding that the St. Louis Rams apologize for allowing players to enter a game with their hands up in protest of the shooting death of Mike Brown, Keith Olberman named Jeff Roorda as the "Worst Person in Sports."





Will Roorda be charged with assault? Will he even be reprimanded by the union for his destructive behavior or is it more likely that the white union members love every minute of what went down?