"According to the new 30-page lawsuit filed this week, 10 days after Kirk's killing, Larry Bushart, 61, shared a post in the comments of a Facebook post about a vigil for Kirk in Perry County, Tennessee. The post showed a photo of Donald Trump alongside a remark the US president made following the 2024 shooting at Perry High School in Iowa: We have to get over it. Bushart captioned the image: This seems relevant today."
"In that interview, Weems said that the post caused multiple people to become scared to send their kids to school. In that interview, Weems also acknowledged that his office knew that the meme referred to a past shooting at a different high school in another state, but said that the public did not know. Weems also told the Tennessean at the time that investigators believe Bushart was fully aware of the fear his post would cause and intentionally sought to create hysteria within the community."
Larry Bushart, 61, was arrested and jailed for 37 days after posting a meme in a Facebook comment about the 10 September assassination of Charlie Kirk. Police charged him with threatening mass violence at a school and set a $2 million bond that he could not pay. Sheriff Nick Weems said some residents feared sending their children to school and that investigators believed the post was intended to create hysteria, even while acknowledging the meme referenced a past shooting in another state. Bushart denies intending a threat and alleges no evidence shows anyone interpreted the meme as a real threat. He has filed a 30-page lawsuit against the county and sheriff.
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