A retired law enforcement officer, 61, who quoted Donald Trump on Facebook, spent more than a month in a Tennessee jail following Charlie Kirk’s death. Officials in Perry County, somehow saw the meme quoting Trump on a community Facebook page as a threat of mass violence at a school. Larry Bushart was arrested and held on $2 million bail. The fuck your feelings party was all up in their feels following Kirk’s shooting death.
Bushart’s crime was quoting Trump when the president said, “We have to get over it,” in response to a 2024 mass shooting at Perry High School in Iowa.
Bushart faced felony charges, even though Sheriff Nick Weems admitted the meme did not contain any threatening words that led investigators to think it was a real threat, according to NewsChannel5.
When word got around of Bushart’s arrest, Weems said, “There’s been some very, very bad phone calls that my employees has had to endure.”
When the arresting officer informed Bushart that the warrant accused him of “threatening mass violence at a school,” the one-time cop said, “At a school? I play on Facebook. I threatened no one.”
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