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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Then they came for the retired law enforcement
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And I said nothing because ACAB
Okay, that’s pretty funny.
I do wonder, if the roles were reversed, would he have refused orders to make the arrest?
No, the answer is no, he would not have refused orders
ACAB
This dude literally kept his chin up and went to jail after multiple threats. I’m not ignorant about more than a couple bad apples. I understand the implicit complicity of by standing quietly. I don’t need the lectures, so let’s focus and not whatabout. This single person, is not a bastard. Say what you will, but bastards equals no greater than all minus one, bc this dude. Wrong fucking thread.
ACAB is saying that a system creates bad people; it takes what could have been good and morphs them due to corruption and inherent injustice.
No matter how good the dude, if they follow through on evil orders, they’ve committed an evil act. And you can’t tell me that this (otherwise good and moral dude) didn’t follow don’t evil orders at some point
I guarantee that as a cop, he committed some terrible shit acts that would make you sad. In the name of the law. And therefore, ACAB.
You do?