St. Louis Police Officer calls the job of Ferguson Activist to get her fired. She gets his number &

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10. yes, she can sue

but will she win and does she have solid grounds to sue?

A good attorney could frame this as a personal matter- that is, the cop was acting outside of his official duties, but on work time, but she endured no loss, except for slander. So she would have to sue the cop personally, for slander, for punitive damages. A bit weak, but I bet the discovery phase would get interesting, as it could be used to dig for evidence of a pattern of intimidation and maybe approved of actions. .

But OTOH, it could be framed as attempt at intimidation, "under color of authority", and sue the dept as a whole with the cop as the agent. That probably would not end in monetary award, but could end in some sort of sanction against the dept, or be rolled into another suit as another example of intimidation to deprive of rights, and maybe escalated to a federal level.

I think that a good civil rights attorney should use this build a suit to expose a pattern of discrimination and intimidation.