Larry Bushart, 61, from Lexington, Tennessee – about 110 miles from Nashville – was booked into jail on September 21 for posting a meme quoting President Donald Trump when he responded to a 2024 school shooting in Perry, Iowa, saying, “We have to get over it.”
Bushart was then arrested and charged with making threats of mass violence on school property and activities.
The dropping of the charges came after NewsChannel 5 aired an interview on Wednesday with Weems in which he admitted that investigators knew the meme was not about a school shooting, but authorities were responding to community anxiety.
Fascism in action: Held in jail on bogus charges for over a month until he lost his job. This is a blatant and likely effective attempt to stifle dissent and deny people their First Amendment rights.
Hopefully he sues the crap out of them. The officers should lose their Qualified Immunity protection because they knowingly violated his Constitutional rights.
I hope he’s already suing. That’s 100% false arrest bullshit.
He better act quickly. The legal system is just about completely collapsed at this point. He may not get the opportunity at all later.
Qualified immunity and the corporate veil shouldn’t exist at all. If they can’t afford liability insurance, then they shouldn’t do it.
Yeah, I hope this costs the taxpayers millions. I hope it costs them enough to where they have to start fucking caring about the shitbags they put into law enforcement.
Yeah! I hope it puts the government in debt!
Due to being imprisoned for more than a month, Bushart reportedly lost his job in medical transport.
All according to plan
When you get to sue for damages you get to sue for is based upon what the defendant is worth.
Pretty sure losing your job qualifies as damages.
Nashville ain’t broke.
Homeboy don’t need a job no more. This case is a slam dunk. This is at least 7 figures, guaranteed.
I hope he has the money to do so.
ACLU works for free in cases as easy as this. Because they know they’ll get their money.
It is a slam dunk. They let him out and dropped charges. They’ve literally admitted fault already.
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Oh I guess they should just roll over and not sue. Obey in advance and let authoritarianism press on.
The case is still a slam dunk. Cut the doomer bullshit.
Heads up, to anyone if you end up in jail and can’t lose your job.
FMLA.
You can take a fuck ton of unpaid time off for family medical leaves of absence and your job must be there for you when you return.
If you’re in a situation where you feel this could happen to you, get a plan in place to get the paperwork moving.
I’m pretty sure FMLA needs to be activated a couple of weeks prior to going on leave.
It does not from my understanding. My mother in law used it quite often when she was having medical issues and would send the forms in a day or two after being out. This was close to 10 years ago now so I’m unsure if anything has changed.
Now time for the lawsuit.
i wish him luck on his eventual lawsuit
