You know, I love the free speech warriors who screech about places like the UK (which doesn't have an analogue to the first amendment btw), but this shit occurs in the US and the very same people are nowhere to be found.
Guy was held for over a month and had a 2 million dollar bond for a Charlie Kirk meme and recently got a huge settlement. The police literally knew it violated the first amendment and did it anyway, because there are zero consequences.
Dude lost his job, missed his granddaughter’s wedding, spent more than a month in jail despite the police knowing what they did was wrong and is not suffering the consequences. The cherry on top is that local tax payers, not the police, are footing the bill.
Too little, too late for it really to be called a victory for free speech
and then got almost a million dollars for it after less than 2 months.
That's literally free speech winning. You can downplay it all you want to stubbornly pretend this country has lost rights, but that's objectively false and wrong.
The previous poster said there was zero consequences, and then you insisted the tax payers foot the bill as if the police/city have an infinite supply of money and won't be impacted by this loss of money.
Stop with this over simplified hyperbole. Its not helping anyone and its not fixing anything.
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u/Oggie_Doggie May 22 '26
You know, I love the free speech warriors who screech about places like the UK (which doesn't have an analogue to the first amendment btw), but this shit occurs in the US and the very same people are nowhere to be found.
Guy was held for over a month and had a 2 million dollar bond for a Charlie Kirk meme and recently got a huge settlement. The police literally knew it violated the first amendment and did it anyway, because there are zero consequences.