Released from jail!! The TN man arrested for posting Trump's exact words

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13. So scary that local sheriffs and DA's feel this empowered and untouchable

It’s alarming that they can disrupt someone’s life this much on charges that I’m sure they knew they’d eventually have to drop. You don’t need convictions to chill speech. Fear of arrest is enough for many of us. There remains civil rights remedies, but I’m curious if the Federal Government and Red States will start ignoring judgments for civil rights violations or if the hurdles will get higher. It certainly wasn’t perfect before, but I’m not sure how effective the checks and balances our legal system will continue to provide. How brazen will state actors become? How far will SCOTUS take the presumption of constitutionality of state actions? Hopefully, people wake up enough that we can scare some sense into our institutions’ representatives by way of popular opinion and votes.