A retired Tennessee law enforcement officer was held in jail for more than a month this fall after police arrested him over a Facebook post of a meme related to the September assassination of conservative activist Charlie Kirk.

Prosecutors eventually dropped the criminal charge brought against Larry Bushart, but his stint behind bars came to exemplify the country’s tense political and legal climate following the tragedy, when conservatives sought to stymie public discourse about the late controversial figure that it saw as objectionable.

Now, Bushart is suing over his incarceration.

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    It’s not that you are attempting to explain the perspectives at play in the national tension leading up to the Civil War that I take issue with.

    It is your assertion to my emphasis of the inhuman brutality of the racial enslavement of Black Americans. This is an essential reality one must contend with in order to have a honest a nuanced conversation around slavery and the Civil War.

    To claim that this is somehow an idiotic thing to bring up while repping so hard for the claim that black Americans are property really is racist.

    Yes, I said you’re racist, just as I did in my comment just prior to this. Of course, you don’t care about that, right? Otherwise, you wouldn’t have encouraged me multiple times to call you racist.

    Choose to respond to the wrong person with insults and claim that bringing up the brutality of American slavery is idiotic all you want. Don’t be surprised when someone hits you back with mockery and derision. Be more thoughtful in what you’re responding to and who you’re responding to.

    There’s really not a lot more I can say on this topic that I haven’t already brought up. I think I have made it abundantly clear what I take issue with and have sufficiently described why people have such a negative response to your arguments.

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      Could have fooled me.

      What assertion is that exactly? Because I’ve been very specific that slavery was involved and is bad so I’m quite curious as to this mystery “assertion”

      When did I claim it was idiotic exactly?

      I didn’t encourage you, you had already called me a racist at that point. How you’re getting that I don’t care is beyond me. You should maybe provide the whole quote because the rest of it directly refutes your bullshit.

      You’re wrong, call me a racist I don’t care since I know you’re wrong and simply attacking me on a personal level says you’re emotionally involved to the point you’re willing to ignore actual facts in favor of feelings.

      I didn’t do that, you’re putting words in my mouth that simply aren’t there which I imagine is why you refuse to quote me on any of these wildly insulting claims.

      No you’ve been incredibly vague and straight up made up shit.