AP Wire
Tennessee officials will pay $835,000 to settle a lawsuit filed by a man who was jailed for more than a month over a Facebook post he made about the assassination of conservative activist Charlie Kirk. Retired police officer Larry Bushart spent 37 days in jail last year before authorities dropped the felony charge against him. He was arrested after he refused to remove memes joking about Kirk's death. The Perry County sheriff said one of Bushart's posts alarmed residents because it referenced a school shooting. Bushart says he was exercising his free speech rights and never should have been arrested.