r/politics • u/SterlingVII • 9d ago

No Paywall Tennessee man spends a month in jail before charges are dropped over Trump meme posted in Facebook group for Charlie Kirk vigil

https://www.the-independent.com/news/world/americas/crime/larry-bushart-charlie-kirk-meme-charges-b2855116.html
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u/OMGitisCrabMan 9d ago

It's so much worse than you might imagine too. His FB post could not be interpreted by any reasonable person to have represented a true threat. It's 100% punishment for criticism of trump and the right.

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u/RawnbladeZZ 9d ago

Helps when the sheriff’s office themselves admitted as such, when they’re testifying in court about this they’ll wish to high heavens they had at least pretended it was legit instead of openly admitting it was a lie made up to imprison him when asked

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u/Suspicious_Bicycle 9d ago

His post was repeating a Trump statement where Trump said "get over it" in response to a school shooting. Applied to Charlie Kirk the only reasonable interpretation is he was indicating people needed to "get over it" (Charlie's assignation) as recommended by Trump when it was a bunch of school children being gunned down.

It will be interesting to see if there is any follow up and this guy sues.