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I'd love to see a law where if the intentional actions of a department results in X amount of settlement dollars paid out, it automatically triggers a flushing of current police leadership.

As is, there's no real penalty except to the taxpayer.

At least with that system, there's incentive for leadership to keep their officers in check, they're care if their own jobs are on the line, and "was fired cuz we had to pay out millions" makes it hard to get hired a city over.

Cities won't want someone who's going to cost them money.

Cops won't do what's right because it's right, so we have to give them a selfish reason to do the right thing. That goes for most people, it's always best to explain why doing the right thing is right for selfish reasons.

"Tennessee officials" aren't paying shit. Tennessee taxpayers are paying for the officials' fuckup. Perhaps it should be taken directly from the officials' private accounts. Why punish taxpayers for the officials infringement on another taxpayer's rights?

The officer who arrested him should pay for not refusing an unconstitutional arrest.

The police chief should pay for not slapping down such an arrest.

Any officers that were aware of it should pay for not acting to protect the man's constitutional rights.

The DA and the judge the signed for any arrest warrant should pay for, again, blatantly ignoring the unconstituionality of this arrest warrant.

Hold the people who failed the system accountable so they don't want to fuck up again. None of them give a shit and the taxpayers have to make this man whole rather than the people that harmed him. Contrarily, the taxpayers brought light to the case to try and protect the man.

American justice at work.

Tennessee made no choices, because Tennessee isn't a thinking self-aware entity capable of independent decision making.

Individuals made the choices so the punishement for the unlawfully use of force should be borne by the individuals who chose to make or supported those choices (often what in civilized countries is called "Abuse Of Power"), not dispersed over a massive group of people almost none of which made, supported or were in a position to stop, that unlawful use of force.

The charges they arrested this guy for were patently absurd to anyone who spent more than 5 seconds looking into it. In a Facebook discussion about Kirk's assasination, he posted a quote from Trump about the Perry, Iowa school shooting, where Trump had said "We have to get over it". They tried to charge him with making a terrorist threat against the local high school (Perry County, TN).

post retirement job

That's just a job …

Not enough. Wheres the public apology, where are the rolling heads? They got the settlement pass.

No matter what, the taxpayer pays. Even if they're held accountable for their fascism, it's still on us. How is that justice? For the man, yes, but those that did this to him face no consequences.

While many people across the U.S. lost their jobs over social media comments about Kirk’s death, Larry Bushart’s case stood out as a rare instance in which such online speech led to criminal prosecution. The 61-year-old retired police officer

Ah OK. All questions answered.

Suffered a gross injustice in the US? It'll be fine, you will be made whole. Just make sure you were a police officer.

Prime example of what's that anti-weapinzation fund is going to be used for, right?

For less than a million dollars they’d do it a dozen times over just to make an example of people like that.

Absolute bargain for them compared to the chilling effects and satisfaction they got out of punishing this guy for a month for his speech. It should be 5 times as big.

man i’m so jealous of this guy.