Posted on 03/25/2023 6:45:02 AM PDT by rktman
I find this hilarious, for some reason.
A singer named “Afroman” has created a music video out of the home security footage taken during a police raid at his house.
The video is called: “Will You Help Me Repair My Door?”
I love it. I want to give this man a medal.
So what’s hilarious about this? He is being sued by the officers who broke into his house with a search warrant–when he wasn’t there, but his wife was–for causing them emotional distress.
In the suit, the officers say Afroman’s music videos, social media posts and merchandise related to the raid amount to an invasion of privacy and misappropriation of their likenesses … and they say it’s causing them emotional distress, ridicule, humiliation, loss of reputation and embarrassment.
I don’t know, but I think that’s fair. They broke into his home with guns drawn using force, searched the house for drugs without finding any, took a disputed amount of money without returning all of it, and now are arguing that they have a right to privacy. The warrant was to search for narcotics and a kidnapping victim.
Neither was found. And as far as I can tell there was never a victim to be found.
The sheriffs, by the way, systematically dismantled his security system during their search. Hard to come up with a reason they had to do that in order to carry out a lawful search.
(Excerpt) Read more at hotair.com ...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d_f9R_UYrDc&ab_channel=ogafroman
Afroman - Why You Disconnecting My Video Camera (Official Music Video)
the irony is, nobody would have ever heard of this artist or the video if the cops hadn’t sued for “emotional distress”
so the cops themselves created all this undue attention that’s giving them so much grief ...
give Afroman credit for having the last laugh!
Fat cop, lemon pound cake.🤣
Very funny!
When you go to the link, make sure to scroll down to watch the Lemon Pound Cake video. Hilarious.
He got raided, then he got high, then he got high, then he got high (or else he got high, and that’s why he got raided).
Roger that! 😁👍
That’s not true. Afroman isn’t a big name, but he’s known, has decent sales. This is probably going to give him a good bump again though.
A sane judge wouldn't give this case they time of day.
I would argue they might have a very weak case that Afroman is using their likeness for commercial purposes and profiting from them, and may be entitled to a portion of his profits but I'm not sure if that would even stand.
When you break into someone’s house, you have a reasonable expectation of privacy. /s
We have to end qualified immunity. Police should provide their own liability insurance the same as health care professionals. It’s ridiculous that officers are not held personally responsible for abuse of citizens. Conservatives have a real blind spot when it comes to the police; they are not our friends. When your door is kicked in during the night and you are shot or dragged away to a cage for insulting trannys by not flying a rainbow flag, it won’t be chinese paratroopers, it will be your own officer friendly.
If the cops are suing as individuals, maybe it lifts the veil of protection they have as cops, and the homeowner can sue them personally.
Thanks for explaining the basis of the search warrant. Now, about that kidnapping victim? Oh, and the pound cake.
they didn’t want the willful destruction of private property documented.
One answer would be that the officers wanted to remove the hard drive, and search it evidence of the "kidnapping" "victim."
Another answer would be that the officers wanted to remove the hard drive, and take possession of the video evidence of their fruitless search.
The reporting is as useless as we have come to expect. I would like to know:
Was there a kidnapping?
Was law enforcement told there was a kidnapping? If so, who told them? When?
Did law enforcement deduce there was a kidnapping? If so, what evidence led them to that conclusion?
What evidence did law enforcement have of drug dealing?
What was the relationship between the kidnapping evidence, and the drug dealing evidence?
Unless the kidnapping/drug dealing evidence has the same source, say a woman came in and reported that Afroman is her boyfriend's drug dealer, and Afroman had kidnapped, and was holding, her boyfriend over an unpaid debt for drugs, I want to know why the warrant was for kidnapping and drug dealing.
One has to wonder if the LEOs suspected Afroman of drug dealing, but did not have enough evidence to get a warrant, then some "evidence" of a kidnapping appeared, and they got a warrant from a judge, and persuaded the judge to let them look for evidence of drug dealing too, which was their real motive.
I expect the answer will come out in litigation. The LEOs were either acting righteously, but mistakenly, or they are profoundly stupid.
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