They would have been within their rights to eject him from the premises. If someone is disrupting a meeting, even a public one in a public space, they can be trespassed. That they could do. But that becomes a crime only if he refuses to leave. But he did nothing here that constitutes a crime. The deputies clearly acted on the order of Pargas, and that could be an issue as well. A county commissioner shouldn’t have the authority to order someone’s arrest. Again, he could order them to escort the man out of the building, but he shouldn’t be able to order them to arrest somebody.
And even if he did, and even if this constituted an arrestable offense, you have got to realize how bad this is going to make you look. George W. Bush, horrible President that he was, famously stood there and took it when the mother of a dying soldier yelled at him when he was visiting wounded soldiers in a hospital.
