Cops may be fined for jailing a man over his Facebook posts.

Larry Bushart, a man who was jailed for 37 days for reposting a Trump meme, has now sued the cops who allegedly schemed to keep him imprisoned for as long as possible simply because they disagreed with his point of view.

  • Manjushri@piefed.socialEnglish
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    6 days ago

    “If police can come to your door in the middle of the night and put you behind bars based on nothing more than an entirely false and contrived interpretation of a Facebook post, no one’s First Amendment rights are safe,” Steinbaugh said.

    Much as I hate being on the side of a cop, retired in this case, the sheriff needs to be criminally charged. At minimum this was false arrest and it appears that Weems and Morrow fabricated evidence that there was “mass hysteria” over Bushart’s posts.

    • village604@adultswim.fanEnglish
      12·
      6 days ago

      The prosecutor who agreed to charge him also needs to be charged, as well as the judge who set the $2m bail

    • Zombiepirate@lemmy.worldEnglish
      7·
      6 days ago

      Yeah, I don’t know how being an ex-cop makes his arrest worse per his complaint. I’m pretty sure most people hate getting locked up for speech.

      But it’s still a bullshit charge that threatens all of us.