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.
‘A couple bad apples’ isn’t an excuse for bad cops, that’s the complete opposite of what the phrase means.
It’s “one bad apple spoils the whole bunch”. It works like that for literal apples and for cops too. Even if a cop doesn’t go around crushing necks with his knees, if he’s willing to tolerate the bad cops that do that makes him a bad cop too.
Good cops don’t survive to retirement. This particular guy is completely right in this situation, but ACAB is still true