Let’s score another victory for liberty. A Louisiana man who was arrested for making an innocuous joke on Facebook has won his lawsuit against the local sheriff’s department for violating his rights.
The case highlights a situation that happens far too often in local communities. The local law enforcement apparatus sought to use its position to punish a private citizen for making a joke they did not appreciate.
The situation occurred in 2020 when the COVID-19 pandemic was in full swing and the authoritarian types were using it to expand the power of the government. Waylon Bailey wrote a satirical post on Facebook in which he compared the pandemic and the subsequent reactions to a zombie apocalypse and jokingly claimed that the local sheriff’s office would have to shoot “the infected.”
It wasn’t too long after Bailey posted the joke when multiple armed officers showed up…
