Huo Jingnan

Larry Bushhart, a retired police officer in Perry County, Tennessee, posted a meme to a Facebook group that was organizing a vigil.

The meme quoted President Trump saying, We have to get over it, a remark the president made after a school shooting in Iowa that killed two people.

Officers showed up at Bushard's home with a warrant near midnight and arrested him for, quote, threatening mass violence.

Unable to afford the $2 million bond, Bushard sat in jail for 37 days until prosecutors dropped the case.

Now Bushard is suing the government and officers for violation of his First and Fourth Amendment rights.

He says he was arrested for, quote, nothing more than refusing to be bullied into censorship.

Huo Jingnan, NPR News.