Man wins $835K after sheriff jailed him for a month over Charlie Kirk post
Seemingly, Weems hoped the threat of arrest would pressure Bushart into removing the post, but Bushart refused to be censored.
Video from the arrest shows that Bushart told the arresting officer he never made such a threat, and some cops at the jail seemed similarly confused about the basis of his arrest. In one exchange caught on footage reviewed by The Intercept, Bushart even shared a laugh with an officer over how silly his arrest seemed to be:
“Just to clarify, this is what they charged you with—Threatening Mass Violence at a School,” a Perry County jail officer told Bushart.
“At a school?” Bushart asked.
“I ain’t got a clue,” the officer responded, laughing. “I just gotta do what I have to do.”
“I’ve been in Facebook jail, but now I’m really in it,” Bushart said, joining him in laughing.
Weems later admitted that “he knew at the time...
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