A former law enforcement officer in Tennessee is taking legal action against his county and sheriff after he was jailed for 37 days simply for posting a controversial meme on Facebook related to the assassination of conservative activist Charlie Kirk.
Larry Bushart, who is 61, filed a new 30-page lawsuit this week against Perry County, Sheriff Nick Weems, and investigator Jason Morrow. Bushart was taken into custody and charged with “threatening mass violence at a school” after sharing the post just 10 days after Kirk’s Sept. 10 assassination. If you ask me, being arrested over a meme is already wild, but the situation got much worse when Bushart was unable to pay the astronomical $2 million bond, leaving him locked up for more than a month, according to The Guardian.
