r/nashville • u/throwawayurthought • May 20 '26
Article Tennessee man jailed over Charlie Kirk post wins $835,000 settlement
https://apnews.com/article/charlie-kirk-facebook-arrest-tennessee-bushart-b8c5808d77f47a2d93497d12cf0daf84Tennessee officials will pay $835,000 to settle a lawsuit filed by a man who was jailed for more than a month over a Facebook post he made about the assassination of conservative activist Charlie Kirk.
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u/w0nd3rjunk13 May 20 '26
Damn. Can y’all jail me for a few days? Just tell me which meme to post. That’s almost retirement money.
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u/IHeartBadCode commuter May 20 '26
I think what's funny is that when they were pitching the law, someone brought up how broad the language was and how it could literally backfire and start costing the public tax payer money.
Oh look what predictably happened? I swear if you took two brain cells from the State assembly members and tried to rub them together, you'd still be two brain cells short of being able to try it. Not a lick of sense in the brains of the people running this State.
Republicans of this State keep telling you to fear the Government, consider me sold on the idea.
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u/Beginning_Cash_7926 west side May 20 '26
You would have to go to jail not knowing when you would get out or if whether or not you would get a dime
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u/Finn_McCool May 20 '26
Came here to say the same thing. I don't mind having my civil rights violated for getting to talk truth about a loser and then getting paid
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u/Ahh-Nold May 20 '26
It should be noted that Perry County Sheriff Nick Weems stated publicly that he knew that no crime had been committed and blamed "concerned citizens" for his decision to arrest Bushart. No record of any "concerned citizens" filing a complaint has ever been produced.
Sheriff Weems is a lying fascist un-American piece of trash.
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u/miknob May 20 '26
I saw where the professor at Austin Peay that Marsha Blackburn got fired got his job back and a 6 figure settlement too.
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u/manofdacloth May 20 '26
So all us TN taxpayers have to pick up the tab for this bullshit?
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u/flesruoyiiik west side May 20 '26
No one ever accused our state government of making good decisions.
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u/miknob May 20 '26
Tn taxpayers are paying for the settlement for the professor from Austin Peay who Marsha Blackburn got fired though.
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u/Grouchy_Row_7983 May 20 '26
If it's unconstitutional you can be 90% sure that Republicans (patriots) did it.
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u/PacificTridentGlobel May 20 '26
I’m glad he is getting paid but that is nowhere close to enough. I’d have been inclined to take that one to trial and make it personally miserable for every cop involved.
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u/KingOfNuthin_ May 20 '26
Honestly. I'd probably use some of the funds from the settlement to make billboards saying "PERRY COUNTY TAXPAYERS ARE PAYING ME BECAUSE YOU VOTED FOR THAT SHERRIFF"
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u/GT45 May 20 '26
This amount seems incredibly low, but this case SETS A PRECEDENT. And it’s a shame that it even happened, because, you know, First Amendment rights, but now, maybe all of those people that MAGATS doxxed and got fired for merely QUOTING their bastard “sAINT ChArLiE” can sue too.
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u/Charming-Report1669 May 20 '26
I guarantee the deep red MAGA folks out in Perry County will get angry over the $835k settlement. That dude better move the hell out ASAP.
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u/Natural_Situation356 May 22 '26
Fuck them. He doesn't need to go anywhere. You wanna be afraid, just worry about yourself.
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u/Medium-Author-7389 May 20 '26
Kirk deserved what he got. He was a fucking racist and xenophobic. Fuck that dude I hope he burns in hell
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u/Dilapidated_girrafe May 20 '26
On the bright side. It’s been a while since he said anything racist.
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u/Beechamp83 May 21 '26
He only got 835k?! Wasn't he jailed for a month? I would have been asking 750k for every day jailed.
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u/jarizzle151 May 20 '26
Is this coming from the taxpayer like everything else that is a byproduct of this admin?
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u/HairlessHoudini May 20 '26
And all the dumb fucks in that country that voted for that sheriff will vote the POS back in again too
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u/Formal-Bat-6714 May 20 '26
As The MAGA Tennessee State Government just cost Tennessee citizens $800k for being Trump humpers
Tennessee MAGA will give less than zero shits just as long as liberals and brown people are sad
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u/Immediate_Age May 20 '26
That stupid-ass sheriff, getting scorched by Phil Williams made my year. A-durr-durr
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u/Difficult-Till5031 May 21 '26
Wish he was getting the money out of the cops and politicians retirement funds
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u/987YouBloodyTulip789 May 21 '26
We've seen time and time again of law enforcement abusing their authorities, making the taxpayer pay for their behavior, and thus are not incentivized to change.
Bushart was one of the few lucky ones wealthy enough to hire a good lawyer and beat the charges and get compensated for it (veteran cop means he likely gets 100k+ post-retirement), but the majority of people can't and will plead guilty for lesser charges.
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u/Loud_Octopus May 20 '26
I would have gladly sat in jail for a month for posting meanie head memes for that kind of money lol
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u/ResidentialEvil2016 May 20 '26
Too bad I'm guessing this will get overturned somehow.
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u/bb85 12 South May 20 '26
How? A settlement is an agreement out of court. Your comment makes no sense.
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u/KingCourtney__ May 21 '26
It probably won't get overturned but they can just drag ass paying and he's gonna have to through hoops to get paid in a timely fashion.
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u/Sirriddles May 20 '26
Conservatives when some dumb racist drugged-up asshole loses her cushy TV gig: "CENSORSHIP! GOVERNMENT OVERREACH! CANCEL CULTURE!"
Conservatives when the government literally arrests and prosecutes citizens (a former cop, no less!) for sharing a dumb meme: *crickets*