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.
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.
Kirk hasn’t said anything racist in a while.
Looks like we found a cure for racism
I never thought I’d side with a retired Tennessee cop, but here I am
this is america. it’s free speech. seriously!
we need socialism
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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.
May I say thanks for the pixelation. I’m serious, it’s tiring looking at his ugly clueless face all the time.
somebody’ll come by and bitch about censorship in 3…2…
It’s amazing how expressive that face is, simultaneously conveying limitless malice and stupidity. The face of a child rapist? It’s believable.
He is like a living testament to the Roald Dahl aphorism about thinking evil thoughts making you look evil.
alexandria ocasio-cortez looks a bit better than trump. seriously!
Are you some kind of spam account? Seriously?
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.
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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.
Exactly.
Let’s not use the opinionated word “tragedy.”
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.
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Moments before he finally became left-leaning.
On his deathbed, he changed his views on gun control.
I’m no fan of this man, but is this the actual moment? If so, I don’t think we should be posting snuff content.
checks community, .world
Yeah, that’s getting removed.
Your heart is in the right place and you are a decent human being for feeling this way. But it’s really, really ugly out there. Some folks are happy that a bad guy is dead. And they are right to feel that way.
I heard his neck just did that randomly
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.
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
The US has lost their license to roast us (the rest of the world) for saying mean things on the internet and getting a vist from the police. Welcome to the club you fat bitch.
I don’t know what planet you live on but it’s the rest of the world roasting the US.
I assure you the United States has both people who will continue to try making that roast, and people who never felt like they had that freedom in the first place.
At least he is American and can sue. Some immigrants were deported and had their lives destroyed just because they had their opinions
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.
