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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oponIfu5L3Y

This is the video in question, police again falling trap to the Streisand effect.

Almost too good to be true. They didn't find large quantities of weed, and afroman had cameras set up and caught it on camera. I mean, talk about landing with your bum in the butter. His career just caught a major reboot.
Love the morons wearing desert/forest camo to an urban job. GI Joe cosplayers.
It's worth it for a spin at millionaire roulette.
As someone who has never seen that video before, could I respectfully say:

LOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOL

Thank you, Ohio cops and lawyers, for bringing this to our attention.

Those cops are the epitome of the term “cry bully”.
Pretty funny, worth seeing at least once to be able to reference it at appropriate times.

Having had my house raided, I love this. Police incompetence should be exposed at all opportunities with the hope that it makes some small amount of difference to future competence.

Damn, that case took a long time to resolve. You know what they say about justice delayed...
That it's the only type of justice you can ever hope to get in the US, if any at all?
I’ve had “lemon pound cake” stuck in my head all morning thanks to this
The judge really loved the cops for some reason. So embarrassing for him.
gotta love some Streisand effect in the morning...
Going on the stand and stating that you "don't know" whether the allegedly defamatory statements you are suing over are true or not is a... bold legal strategy.
One of the more interesting parts of the whole ordeal was officers getting on the witness stand and declaring that the lyrics that insinuated he had had sex with their wife were deeply traumatizing.

People keep throwing around 'cuck' as an insult, but if trained officers of the law familiar with application of deadly force when necessary can be severely traumatized by the notion of another man sleeping with their wife... Maybe the cucks have been the brave ones all along?

As fellow Ohioan Chrissie Hine and The Pretenders said, "Ay, oh, way to go, Ohio."

Yeah, it was from "My City Was Gone," which isn't a pleasant song about the state, but pfft, it works here.

Gotta say I love Afroman's choice of courtroom atire.
Y'know, officers, if you'd shown up to his house after the raid and apologized and offered to buy the guy a new door of his choosing and the installation for it, we're probably not having this conversation.
I was gonnna click the link, but then I got high.
"Mr. Foreman was not at home during the 2002 police raid, but a security camera system and his wife, using her cellphone, recorded the “faces and bodies” of the officers while they were on the property, according to the lawsuit"

"2002" New York Times, everyone.

Props to afroman for his perfect demeanor/attitude during all this.

There used to be a Twitter account that pointed out typos like this—I think exclusively—in the NYT.
Surprised they didn't write 2ÖÖ2, knowing the Times' predilections
Those cops embarrassed themselves. Especially that one lady that was faux crying. Shameful behavior from the largest gang in the US.
It gives me immeasurable delight seeing afroman at the top of HN.

Love me some freedom, sweet soulful music, and pie in the face of bad cops.

Dang/Tom, please don't downrank this. America needs this win.

I love the Afroman story so much. Everything about it.

It does more to expose just how incompetent, entitled and corrupt the average cop really is, something I wish was better known. The cops who brought this suit are basically the biggest crybabies, are too dumb to realize it and too entitled to realize that others wouldn't see it that way. It's fantastic.

Compare this to policing in Japan [1]:

> Koban cops go to extraordinary lengths to learn their beats. They're required to regularly visit every business and household in their districts twice a year, ostensibly to hand out anti-crime flyers or ask about their security cameras. The owner of a coffee shop told Craft, "With Officer Sota, we can say what's on our mind. He's really like a neighbor. Instead of dialing emergency when we need help, we just call him."

American cops are a gang, by and large.

Cops have absolutely massive budgets, from small towns to big cities. Let's not forget Uvalde, where the police department budget was ~40% of the city budget and it resulted in 19 cops standing outside scared while one shooter kept shooting literal children for an hour. Because they were scared.

[1]: https://www.cbsnews.com/news/walking-the-beat-in-japan-a-hea...

I wasn't gonna run from the cops...
Okay at first I was like this music is not my style, but the humor was so good.
I've only seen the clip where Afroman is escaping from that police lady zigzaging backwards, but that's enough for me.

How is it that a law enforcement officer can't keep up with a man in his 50s who isn't even trying to be the fastest?

I know things are bad in the USA right now, but news like these show that you still have your basic rights. This kind of song would not fly in any other country on Earth. No other country has Freedom of Speech laws strong enough to defend against insulting the police. There have been some people abusing their freedom in recent times cough Kanye cough, but for every loud nazi there are ten more excellent people whose right to speak should not be infringed!
One of my favorite parts is when Afroman is being cross examined about why he brought the media and his lawyer to retrieve his money.

He says, well that was for my protection because they came to my house with AR-15's and turned off the cameras. "I didn't want to get beat up or Epstein'd".

And the lawyer is trying to make that out to be unreasonable, that a black man in the US shouldn't be scared of the police. Afroman just continues to assert that of course he was scared.