A retired Tennessee law enforcement officer was held in jail for more than a month this fall after police arrested him over a Facebook post of a meme related to the September assassination of conservative activist Charlie Kirk.
Prosecutors eventually dropped the criminal charge brought against Larry Bushart, but his stint behind bars came to exemplify the country’s tense political and legal climate following the tragedy, when conservatives sought to stymie public discourse about the late controversial figure that it saw as objectionable.
Now, Bushart is suing over his incarceration.
Too bad he was retired otherwise he would’ve only been suspended for a month with full pay. /s I hope he gets a shitload of money for being subject to the thought police hypocrisy.
This is the way.
If fucking Nazis are still permitted to go on marches (and that’s the typical case discussed) then someone sure as FUCK can say whatever they want about some asshat like Kirk passing away…
Turns out being a cop doesn’t protect you from the regime.
Wish all the law enforcement officers who voted for a convicted felon and adjudicated rapist realized that before voting for a convicted felon and adjudicated rapist.
Cops often grew up under similar circumstances to many people who joined gangs. Being a cop is just being part of the biggest most untouchable gang of them all.
Well, let’s be real, BANKERS are the biggest most untouchable gang!
Yup I hear they’re as untouchable as health insurance ceo’s. Hmm I guess when I think about most powerful people are.
No shit, but it doesn’t matter. SCOTUS and too many other courts are MAGA.
Kirk hasn’t said anything racist in a while.
Now that the emotion has died down and I can look at Charlie Kirk’s assassination as a whole and what came of it, i can confidently say that the world feels slightly better without Charlie Kirk in it. I don’t mourn him.
Looks like we found a cure for racism
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This is the image they jailed him for.
This should be a slam dunk win for him. Blatant political retribution. The people who jailed him should be jailed, disbarred, fined, etc., the citizens shouldn’t have to pay the court award for their fascism.
Are you fucking kidding me? He simply quoted Trump and got jail time? What a fucking joke.
Thou shall not offend the Dear Leader!
May I say thanks for the pixelation. I’m serious, it’s tiring looking at his ugly clueless face all the time.
It’s amazing how expressive that face is, simultaneously conveying limitless malice and stupidity. The face of a child rapist? It’s believable.
Even Bob Gale, who had access to a real time machine when penning Back to the Future 2, had to dial back how Biff Tannen represented Trump to get a PG rating. Meanwhile a documentary about our sitting president that only tells objective facts could potentially get an NC-17. Guess that’s why the voting age is 18.
He is like a living testament to the Roald Dahl aphorism about thinking evil thoughts making you look evil.
somebody’ll come by and bitch about censorship in 3…2…
alexandria ocasio-cortez looks a bit better than trump. seriously!
Are you some kind of spam account? Seriously?
i actually have autism which is why i type like that. seriously!
I never thought I’d side with a retired Tennessee cop, but here I am
this is america. it’s free speech. seriously!
Let’s not use the opinionated word “tragedy.”
we need socialism
He quoted Trump saying ‘We need to just get over it’ about the Perry High School shooting in Iowa.
What he said wasn’t even hateful, it was a fucking quote.
This news story existing a decade ago would have broke the minds of most Americans. Even those that support Trump now. It’s amazing how the slow trickle of Fascism is normalized in society.
Well, it was from Trump, so it was a pretty hateful quote, to be fair
Fair point
The same guy who said Rob Reiner “died due to TDS”?
Its OK when Chavez he president does it
And not even close to encouraging breaking the law. I’ve heard politicians have essentially the same “let’s move on” attitude about school shootings.
Some politicians wear AR-15 pins. I wish I was joking.
All Kimmel did was play clips of trump.
I got in trouble with Facebook once for quoting Trump’s thing about how he could shoot someone without losing supporters. If it isn’t appropriate to say on Facebook, it isn’t appropriate to say in a presidential campaign!
I created a Facebook page called “Fled Cruz”, the profile picture was Rafael “Ted” Cruz and the only thing I posted was quotes of his tweets, Facebook shut it down for hate speech. They denied the appeal and deleted the entire page.
Fuck the Zuck
scary thing is how they managed to find him (the retired cop) through facebook.
I mean isn’t your name right there on it? It isn’t even semi-anonymous.
I wouldn’t be surprised if someone in his cop friend circle reported him
It absolutely had to be a conservative in his circle looking to punish him.
As he should, absolutely his first amendment right was violated.
If the right can spout pure hatred and bullshit with impunity, so can everyone else.
It’s not even hatred. It’s a quote from the ‘president’ about a similar event, that had more and younger victims.
He is the right wing. It was a meme of hate supporting kirk.
He isn’t, it wasn’t, and you’re an asshole.
It was a picture of Trump with a quote that he had said about a school shooting saying “We have to get over it”. This guy also added “This Seems Relevant”
Perfect username lol.
No.
Removed by mod
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-ZB2ftCl2Vk “States rights to do what?” gets lost-causers so mad lol
“states’ rights to own slaves”
And to force non-slave states to return escaped slaves.
Indeed, but oh wait, all of sudden they want to use slaves as part of their population so they can get more Representatives in the House too.
Exactly.
And he will win
Yeah, but will any of the police officers involved in this disgrace lose anything? Or is it just going to be taxpayers signing a settlement check again?
If there’s one thing we’ve learned over the past decade or so, it’s that we’ll never learn.
