Tennessee Sheriff Arrested Man for a “Hate Meme”

Perry County Sheriff Nick Weems nabbed another thought criminal on Sept 22nd for re-posting a meme in a local Facebook page dedicated to a Charlie Kirk vigil titled ‘this seems relevant’ and quoted Trump saying ‘We have to get over it’ in reference to high school shooting in Perry, Iowa. The Perry County sheriff decided to twist this meme about Trump’s words about an event that happened last year in another state into a threat to shoot up Perry County High school to get an arrest warrant to put the thought criminal, Lexington, TN resident Larry Bushart, in jail for 35 days on a $2 million bond. He was only released 2 days before Halloween after the Perry County sheriff’s department had been thoroughly embarrassed by the publicity they received for their false arrest that was blatantly politically motivated. The fact that police and magistrates in two different jurisdictions (Henderson County where Bushart lives and Perry County) signed off on the arrest warrants and collaborated on this arrest, booking, and transfer to another county jail should be alarming to everyone. The Lexington police officers that arrested him didn’t even know why he was being charged: just following orders. This is not the first or last time a local LEO arrests someone with trumped up charges for making social media posts they don’t like. In July, a Louisiana sheriff arrested one of his residents for making an observation about police activity in his area on the fabricated charge of ‘terrorizing the public.’

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