"An image of President Donald Trump, highlighting Trump's comments following a Jan. 2024 school shooting at Perry High School of Perry, Iowa, in which Trump insisted "we have to get over it." It was, frankly, an extremely basic bit of internet trolling from a surprisingly liberal-aligned man, considering his background as a former cop, and status as a rural, senior citizen white male."
"But to anyone with a functioning brain cell, the meaning of the meme was obvious: Bushart was pointing out the hypocrisy of conservatives performatively caring about one shooting, while minimizing another. That obviousness is what made it so shocking when Larry Bushart was subsequently arrested by the police department of a small-town sheriff on the same day he made the post, and charged with "threatening mass violence at a school," which supposedly had caused "mass hysteria" in the area."
Larry Bushart, 61, a retired Tennessee police officer, posted a meme in a local Facebook group after Charlie Kirk's assassination. The meme showed President Trump and highlighted his comment after the January 2024 Perry High School shooting: "we have to get over it." Bushart's post criticized conservative hypocrisy. Local sheriff's deputies arrested Bushart the same day and charged him with threatening mass violence at a school and causing mass hysteria. He was held for 37 days on a $2 million bond. He lost his medical driver job, missed his wedding anniversary and the birth of a grandchild during incarceration, and was released Oct. 30 with no explanation from the sheriff's office.
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