Tennessee Man Arrested, Gets $2M Bond for Posting Facebook Meme
Tennessee Man Arrested, Gets $2M Bond for Posting Facebook Meme
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Tennessee man arrested, gets $2 million bond for posting Facebook meme
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The meme in question:
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I know it's not your meme, but this seems like the place to ask. What exactly is the censoring achieving here?
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His first hearing isn't until December! Imagine being stuck in jail for at least 2 months for a meme...
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American Meme.
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Another casualty in the great meme war.
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Individuals cannot be arrested simply for expressing dissenting opinions or sharing memes that criticize the government, as long as those expressions do not constitute true threats. Fuck that NSPM-7 order.
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Can he appeal that bond? I can't imagine what probable cause would lead to this unless it's 100% not the meme posting.
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No way it's just the meme for that kind of bond. The judge must have considered him some kind of risk to the community. My guess is that the investigators found some evidence suggesting that he meant for it to be interpreted as a threat.
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You have to be pretty fucking dense to still be giving law enforcement the benefit of the doubt in 2025. You've learned nothing.
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Read the article.
They are assuming he meant it as a threat when he actually meant it as a dismissal of the CK shooting. Their only evidence is that the county in which he was arrested and the school where the shooting that prompted the Trump quote are both named Perry. No actual substantiation, just a presumption of guilt based on having the same name.
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We don't know what evidence was presented to the judge. That's all that can be said, but I'll add this, stay the fuck off FaceBook. Preaching to the choir around here, I know.
Those comms are in the clear and monitored not only by FB, but by the sort of people that initiated this complaint. And guess where the government is aiming their new, high-power AI tools? Funny that people are worried about our discussions here when the administration has their hands full monitoring the big dogs.
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At first glance it doesn't seem like much but there are factors that might cause him some real trouble.
He posted the meme(s) in the Perry county (Tennessee) community FB group. The meme references the Perry high school mass shooting. The Perry high school shooting happened in Iowa but this knucklehead posted it in a group where it could easily be taken to mean the local Perry high school as a threat. Further, the meme has the added tag of "This seems relevant today" so it was taken as a threat to shoot up the local school. The judge seems to think it was a legit threat too since the bond was set at $2,000,000 dollars.
Personally, unless there is more too it, I think he'll get off in the end. His posts don't sound much worse than many things I've seen posted and it doesn't seem to me like a direct threat. But then, I don't live by a Perry High School
Still, sucks to be him since he's stuck in jail until at least December. Then again, he's a former cop, so I have to wonder how many other people lives he ruined by getting them locked up for months on some bullshit charge. Maybe this is just karma.
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Okay but
This man should be put in front of a judge who should realize that it is not that
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How does posting a quote from the aftermath of a school shooting constitute a real threat of a new shooting? It's relevant because it was in the aftermath of Kirk's shooting, it wouldn't be relevant to post a quote of "we have to get over it" if you were trying to make a threat about a future shooting.
Sure they might have taken him in on the bogus, unfounded claim that he was somehow making a threat, but the real message they're trying to send is that being outspoken against the rise of fascism will get you thrown in jail.
There's no point in trying to explain the bullshit excuse, because it never mattered in the first place. The judge "thought" it was a legit threat because they're just another part of the corrupt system trying to quash this kind of discourse. If anything they went after the former cop because they want to keep any others from switching sides.
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Thanks for actually adding context and an assessment. Sorry you're getting downvoted by people that don't like it
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Uh huh.
Did they post their source for their claims and unfounded assumptions of due process?
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I actually find it kind of fascinating. There are loads of people in this thread defending this guy and saying that he's being victimized by a corrupt system, all the while not noticing that he is a retired cop who spent his career as part of that corrupt system and who almost certainly sent more than a few people to jail for a couple of months on charges as bogus as these seem to be. That sounds like it might be karmic payback to me.
Personally, I'm just keeping an open mind and suspecting that there is more to the story based on the rather large bail.
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What's the actual meme
Allegedly:
Thank you confirming a nothing burger...
And just like that US is now like UK where online comments lead to charges.
They are doing this for a specific purpose.
We hanged people like Charlie Kirk at Nuremberg. It's a tragedy he was shot, but the world is a better place with him 6 feet under ground.
I love how the article specifies the one he was arrested for was "by far" not the most offensive one
Well, I'm sure the RSS bot doesn't want to get arrested so...
The rss bot is a member of antifa