#Tennessee man #imprisoned by virulent #GOP sheriff for posting #meme to a members only non-public local #Facebook group is finally released.

Back in September Larry Bushart was detained and given a $2m bail at Perry County jail in Linden, Tennessee. The rural #RWNJ sheriff was offended in wake of Charlie Kirk murder , apparently after seeing a Bushart posted pic of President #Drumpf, saying “We have to get over it", which was a quote about a previous shooting he'd made.

Since then the detained man, who'd become a free speech cause célèbre, was held in custody in rural Tennessee for weeks after small town sheriff Nick Weems declared the post "intentionally sought to create hysteria within the community," which is what Weems said in a statement to The Tennessean newspaper last month.

The detained man was apparently being prosecuted by 32nd Judicial District Attorney Hans Schwendimann, who did not respond for media comment after the release.

https://theintercept.com/2025/10/30/larry-bushart-tennessee-free-speech-charlie-kirk-meme/ #CopWatch #WeHaveToGetOverIt

#GOP #Tennessee #sheriff defends #imprisonment of liberal retired #PrisonGuard activist on unattainable $75k bond for posting a #schoolshooting #meme online

https://www.newschannel5.com/news/newschannel-5-investigates/tennessee-sheriff-defends-jailing-liberal-activist-for-posting-trump-meme-about-school-shooting #CopWatch #LawEnforcement

#DanNoyes of #BayArea #ABCNews affiliate station uncovers pix of a suburban #SanMateoSheriff outpost near #SFO where the #PoliceChief (whose compensation exceeds $400k annually) lives in #Idaho mini manse ... But city inspectors found he'd converted a #PoliceStation office into a mini bedroom, replete with verboten booze stash.

Noyes #ITeam finds at least a half dozen other officers in this small dept, including entire #BombSquad, all live out of #California as well, hours if not days, from listed requirement of officers being able to respond to community #crisis #publicsafety situations like #TerroristAttacks #Earthquakes #Fires quickly...

Not surprisingly, this dubious distraction appears connected to county's ousted female sheriff Corpus who named the chief to his post, and he in turn named her in lawsuit he filed seeking hundreds of thousands from county on top of his judicious salary from same county !

https://youtu.be/huT3FnAMzp0 #CopWatch #CaliforniaPolitics #EmploymentLaw

A retired online #memester and former police officer has been put in jail with a $2m bail since days after #CharlieKIrk was shot in Utah for posting ideologically #leftist meme content on #socialmedia webpages that a #rwnj rural #Tennessee sheriff doesn't like...

https://theintercept.com/2025/10/23/charlie-kirk-meme-arrest-tennessee-larry-bushart/ #CopWatch