A retired cop posts as meme quoting Trump, gets thrown in jail for 37 days on a mass-violence threat charge, and now he’s suing Perry County for violating his First and Fourth Amendment rights. The charge was dropped because there literally wasn’t any evidence anyone took it as a threat.
-SasquatchTracks- on
I hope he bankrupts the entire state. It’s what ol Chucky would have wanted.
jason082 on
Hope the taxpayers in Perry County have to come out of pocket big
time for this.
albiondave on
He’s going to end up owning the County after this. The punitive damages need to be VERY punatitive to send the message that this sort of BS will not be tolerated and that MAGA cannot act as the thought Police.
Show the complains, then. Define “multiple people”? How many is that? 1? 2? 10? 100? How many kids did not attend school the following day because these parents felt threatened by this?
This is vague Gestapo type BS with false or exaggerated statements from the Sherriff’s office. The Sherriff Nick Weems was looking to flex his personal opinion as law and he and the County should be held accountable.
TheComplimentarian on
Southwest of Nashville is about as red as it gets in Tennessee.
BudgetLaw2352 on
I thought that Republicans wanted to end cancel culture?
Oh no? They’re all hypocritical pieces of shit?
Checks out.
Moody_GenX on
The pro 1st amendment peeps are pretty quiet on this one in their echo chamber section of reddit…
RespectTheTree on
They truly lost their mind over that idiot.
Top-Signal-8566 on
As he should
showhorrorshow on
The way this case goes will be a good reading on just how corrupted we’ve become.
the-skazi on
How is telling someone to “get over it” via a meme considered a threat? Fucking clown ass hillbillies.
Harley297 on
Damages should come out of the law enforcement pension fund
Effective-Ebb-2805 on
Make everyone involved from law enforcement to the prosecutor to the sheriff personally and professionally liable. They kidnapped this man, held him prisoner for 37 days, and ruined his reputation with criminal charges that were pressed against him because of a fucking meme that they found distasteful about their favorite white supremacist influencer? Sue the life out of them, put them all in prison, and make sure they’re NEVER able to hold a law enforcement job again.
bbbbbbbbbblah on
I’m confused. I was told that the UK was where people are relentlessly jailed for “hurty words” on social media and the US is the free speech capital of the world?
indictmentofhumanity on
The part where people claimed to be scared is total BS.
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Abraham_Froman34 on
Your tax dollars to “own the libs”
Glad-Process-3268 on
You can tell how much Tennessee cares about this issue based on its response to the Covenant School in Nashville. Two years after the mass shooting, the Tennessee GOP state legislature has still failed to pass any meaningful gun safety legislation. Failed or stalled legislation includes
* universal background checks
* red flag
* mandatory safety storage
* Repeal permitless carry
* Extreme risk protection orders
The laws they passed about guns
* arm teaches
* Protect gun companies from civil lawsuits
* tax breaks for gun locks
This was *AFTER* three nine-year-olds and their teachers were murdered on their watch.
ThirdDimensionGate on
Qualified immunity should not apply in this case. Cops that knowingly abuse their authority and falsely imprisoned someone should be liable personally and fired
Strange-Effort1305 on
Tennessee is wholly subservient to don trump. This isn’t going anywhere.
westcoastxsouth on
Hope he wins and the sheriff who arrested him should lose his job.
Hot_Tadpole_6481 on
Bro gonna get the bag
shadowdra126 on
After what Trump said about Reiner, I don’t see how what this guy did was bad at all, if not presidential when you look at the evidence
InevitableGoal2912 on
Oh there will be a payday.
ThatdudeAPEX on
When will Elmo announce he’s backing this first amendment case?
f-it_bowling on
Time to jail Trump then
Conscious_Problem924 on
Charlie Kirk became a good Nazi on that day.
Money_Magazine6620 on
Perry county is classified as a distressed county with a poverty rate of around 18% in 2023 and a median income of 43k. The total population is under 10k people. The one thing they don’t have is money, this is why you literally can’t afford to elect bumbling idiots. This money will come from people who don’t have it in the form of property tax increases and reductions to vital services, driving even more people out of the county, lowering the population and their income even further. This is on par with a major natural disaster for these people. All over a Facebook meme…
Ceased2Be on
There goes the “in England you can get thrown in jail for your social media posts” argument. :’)
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A retired cop posts as meme quoting Trump, gets thrown in jail for 37 days on a mass-violence threat charge, and now he’s suing Perry County for violating his First and Fourth Amendment rights. The charge was dropped because there literally wasn’t any evidence anyone took it as a threat.
I hope he bankrupts the entire state. It’s what ol Chucky would have wanted.
Hope the taxpayers in Perry County have to come out of pocket big
time for this.
He’s going to end up owning the County after this. The punitive damages need to be VERY punatitive to send the message that this sort of BS will not be tolerated and that MAGA cannot act as the thought Police.
“In an interview with local news at the time, Weems [said](https://www.newschannel5.com/news/newschannel-5-investigates/tennessee-sheriff-defends-jailing-liberal-activist-for-posting-trump-meme-about-school-shooting) that the post caused “multiple people” to become “scared to send their kids to school”.”
Show the complains, then. Define “multiple people”? How many is that? 1? 2? 10? 100? How many kids did not attend school the following day because these parents felt threatened by this?
This is vague Gestapo type BS with false or exaggerated statements from the Sherriff’s office. The Sherriff Nick Weems was looking to flex his personal opinion as law and he and the County should be held accountable.
Southwest of Nashville is about as red as it gets in Tennessee.
I thought that Republicans wanted to end cancel culture?
Oh no? They’re all hypocritical pieces of shit?
Checks out.
The pro 1st amendment peeps are pretty quiet on this one in their echo chamber section of reddit…
They truly lost their mind over that idiot.
As he should
The way this case goes will be a good reading on just how corrupted we’ve become.
How is telling someone to “get over it” via a meme considered a threat? Fucking clown ass hillbillies.
Damages should come out of the law enforcement pension fund
Make everyone involved from law enforcement to the prosecutor to the sheriff personally and professionally liable. They kidnapped this man, held him prisoner for 37 days, and ruined his reputation with criminal charges that were pressed against him because of a fucking meme that they found distasteful about their favorite white supremacist influencer? Sue the life out of them, put them all in prison, and make sure they’re NEVER able to hold a law enforcement job again.
I’m confused. I was told that the UK was where people are relentlessly jailed for “hurty words” on social media and the US is the free speech capital of the world?
The part where people claimed to be scared is total BS.
[deleted]
Your tax dollars to “own the libs”
You can tell how much Tennessee cares about this issue based on its response to the Covenant School in Nashville. Two years after the mass shooting, the Tennessee GOP state legislature has still failed to pass any meaningful gun safety legislation. Failed or stalled legislation includes
* universal background checks
* red flag
* mandatory safety storage
* Repeal permitless carry
* Extreme risk protection orders
The laws they passed about guns
* arm teaches
* Protect gun companies from civil lawsuits
* tax breaks for gun locks
This was *AFTER* three nine-year-olds and their teachers were murdered on their watch.
Qualified immunity should not apply in this case. Cops that knowingly abuse their authority and falsely imprisoned someone should be liable personally and fired
Tennessee is wholly subservient to don trump. This isn’t going anywhere.
Hope he wins and the sheriff who arrested him should lose his job.
Bro gonna get the bag
After what Trump said about Reiner, I don’t see how what this guy did was bad at all, if not presidential when you look at the evidence
Oh there will be a payday.
When will Elmo announce he’s backing this first amendment case?
Time to jail Trump then
Charlie Kirk became a good Nazi on that day.
Perry county is classified as a distressed county with a poverty rate of around 18% in 2023 and a median income of 43k. The total population is under 10k people. The one thing they don’t have is money, this is why you literally can’t afford to elect bumbling idiots. This money will come from people who don’t have it in the form of property tax increases and reductions to vital services, driving even more people out of the county, lowering the population and their income even further. This is on par with a major natural disaster for these people. All over a Facebook meme…
There goes the “in England you can get thrown in jail for your social media posts” argument. :’)