Lawsuit alleges that Larry Bushart’s first amendment rights were violated when he was arrested and jailed for 37 days
A former law enforcement officer in Tennessee is suing his county and sheriff after he was jailed for more than a month for posting a meme on Facebook related to the 10 September assassination of the conservative activist Charlie Kirk.
According to the new 30-page lawsuit filed this week, 10 days after Kirk’s killing, Larry Bushart, 61, shared a post in the comments of a Facebook post about a vigil for Kirk in Perry county, Tennessee.
The post showed a photo of Donald Trump alongside a remark the US president made following the 2024 shooting at Perry high school in Iowa: “We have to get over it.”
Bushart captioned the image: “This seems relevant today.”
