Story highlights "Let's get rocks; let's get bricks, and let's get bottles," says Kenneth Stokes

Outrage poured out on social media culminating in vows by a sheriff and the governor to seek an investigation

A recent chase appears to have brought Stokes to a boiling point

(CNN) A city councilman fed up with police from other counties racing after small-time crooks in his Jackson, Mississippi, neighborhood has called for residents to throw things at officers in pursuit.

Now, the governor and a county sheriff are threatening to have prosecutors investigate him over the suggestion.

Councilman Kenneth Stokes has a reputation of saying what he thinks and stirring controversy.

"Let's get rocks; let's get bricks, and let's get bottles," Stokes told CNN affiliate WJTV. "And we'll start throwing them, and then they won't come in here anymore."

It was no one-off quip. Stokes repeated the suggestion to other local news outlets.

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