Man jailed over Trump meme after Charlie Kirk is finally shot

The Intercept and CBS affiliate NewsChannel 5 in Nashville secured body camera footage from a Lexington cop that undermined Weems’ account. The footage clearly showed that the officer did not understand why the Perry County Sheriff took issue with Bosshart’s Facebook post.

“So, I’ll be completely honest with you,” the policeman told Bosshart. “I have no idea what they’re talking about. He just called me and told me there were some disturbing posts being made…”

Bosshart explained that it was likely his Facebook posts, laughing at the idea that someone might have called the cops to report his memes. The Lexington officer told Bosshart he wasn’t sure “exactly what” the Facebook post “they were referring to,” but “they said something was insinuating violence.”

Bushart responded: “No, that was not the case,” stressing, “I will not drop him.”

The officer, who refused to even look at the Facebook post, told Bosshart: “I don’t care. This has nothing to do with me.” But the officer’s indifference didn’t stop Lexington police from detaining, booking and sending Bosshart to Weems County, where Bosshart was charged “under a state law passed in July 2024 that makes making threats against schools a class E felony,” the Tennessean reported.

“Just to be clear, this is what they charged you with,” a Perry County Jail officer said to Bosshart, which was captured in a video reviewed by The Intercept, “threatening mass violence at school.”

“At school?” asked Bosshart.

“I have no idea,” the officer replied, laughing. “I just gotta do what I gotta do.”

“I was in Facebook prison, but now I’m really in it,” Bushart said, joining in the laughter.

The cops knew the meme wasn’t a threat

Lexington police told The Intercept that Weems lied when he told local media that troopers “coordinated” to give Bosshart a chance to delete the post before he was arrested. Confronted with the camera footage, Weems denied lying, claiming his investigator’s report was inaccurate, NewsChannel 5 reported.

Weems later admitted to NewsChannel 5 that “investigators knew the meme wasn’t about Perry County High School” and asked for Bosshart’s arrest anyway, hoping to allay “the concerns of people in the community who misinterpreted it.” This is as close to Weems as it seems to admit that his intention was to censor the post.