Officers of the law are suing a rapper because his house attacked them, invading their privacy.
The rapper, Afroman, known for songs like “Crazy Rap” — and now “Will You Help Me Repair My Door,” about post-raid maintenance and the easy availability of lemon pound cake in his kitchen — claims otherwise.
The home of Afroman, aka Joseph Foreman, was raided by the Adams County sheriff’s office in August of 2022. They grabbed money. There was a paper warrant authorizing the action, but, he says, no actual justification, just “assumptions.”
He wasn’t home at the time. His family was.
Afroman admits to smoking blunts and said after the raid that he would have cooperated if asked about the contents of his ash trays. But he had no significant amount of marijuana in his home.
“You shouldn’t kick people’s doors down over speculation,” he said, “and you shouldn’t kick people’s doors down with an AR-15 over assumptions. You shouldn’t kick people’s doors down traumatizing kids over an assumption.”
The sheriff’s office found no evidence of “drug trafficking” and filed no charges.
Now officers are suing Afroman, who seems to be a plucky sort, for incorporating footage taken by his wife and security cameras during the raid into rap videos. The lawsuit says the video evidence is causing them “emotional distress, embarrassment, ridicule, loss of reputation and humiliation.”
Apparently, they were all just standing around minding their own business when this thing happened to them.
Countersue, Afroman.
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AMEN!
Countersue.
There are far too many SWAT raids for no real reason.
Maybe this will wake people up.
Go for it.
Agreed. The policemen should grow a pair!