Disappointingly his lawyer wasn’t Harvey Birdman

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    This whole kerfuffle really irks me. The police did something wrong. They got called out on it. Then they sued. It’s vindictive and horrible. And you fucking KNOW that if he sued them instead of making the song it very likely wouldn’t have gone anywhere and they’d get to wave their qualified immunity all over. But that wasn’t enough for them. They just couldn’t stand someone besmirching their perfect name.

    The sheer irony of this whole thing is that I had forgotten. I imagine many of you did too if you even saw those videos he made after it happened a few months back. They totally Streisand effected (Streisand affected? lol) themselves. Absolutely disgusting to see them sue him over this. Very glad he won.

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      Somone pleas correct me if im wrong, but he had a counter suit and everything got thrown out almost immediately because the judge was essentially gobbing the cops knobs.

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    This whole case is going to make a great documentary one day. I just hope Netflix doesn’t make it (for obvious reasons)

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        Netflix doesn’t make content that’s meant to be watched anymore. It’s meant to be played in the background while you doomscroll. I’d rather watch something that wants to be watched.

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        Everything Netflix makes feels like slop now. Once upon a time NF was a marker of quality, but now they make every documentary 3 or 4 parts for no reason—dragging out storylines until they are boring—and they all look the same visually. There isn’t anything that makes them unique. They feel paint by numbers.

        This is extra disappointing with a filmmaker like Chris Smith who has made some all time classic films (American Movie, American Job), but his Netflix stuff now looks like anyone in the Netflix stable could have directed them.

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          Lol, Netflix had a few quality shows but they have had more slop than quality at all times they have done productions. They had to retire the Netflix original title as it became synonymous with slop.

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    It piss me off that he support trump (I figure it’s because he got so high he didn’t know where he was) but he still does a damn good show. Saw him a few years back.

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    Afro man def put up a badass response to that questioning…

    But it’s with also mentioning the prosecutor is fucking terrible at his job.

    Afroman did a great job in the stand, but the prosecutor was straight up LAME in their questioning.

    The lawyer rolled over at the end of questioning, that’s rare…

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    The best part about this is that his songs pissed off the cops so much that they couldn’t just be satisfied with stealing his shit; they had to take him to court about how much he hurt their feelings!

    They look ten times more ridiculous than if they had just let it go.

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    Watched Aftoman’s testimony. It’s beggars belief that the police’s attorney repeatedly demands sympathy from both Afroman and the jury for the poor, victimized police officer’s hurt feelings and embarrassment after her actions were made public.

    Afroman puts it well when the attorney is trying to get that sympathy, “But I’m not a person. She is. I’m sorry for being a victim. Let’s talk about the predators [instead].”

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    I just don’t understand how anybody could see what happened to this man and not understand just how deeply corrupt the police and judges in this case are. Every single one of them belongs in prison, or more accurately underground.

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      I know the case wasn’t actually about this but I can’t understand why when executing a search warrant looking for kidnap victims you would proceed to ransacked the kitchen. Stick your head in there, is there anyone tied up in there, nope. So then you leave, I doubt someone’s been held captive in the cutlery drawer.

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        I only watched one of his videos, but there was a whole verse about that.

        “Any kidnapping victims inside my suit pockets?” he sings, over footage of cops rummaging through the jackets hanging in his closet.

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        Well as a matter of course cops look for drugs. Even when the resident called them for completely unrelated reasons

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      It’s in the banana republic after all.
      In their reasoning he should be happy he wasn’t shot.
      (which could very well have happened if he was at home)

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        I suggest we feed them to sharks to create a genetic line that crave the flesh of US police.

        Next… Legs.

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            Microplastics and genetic deformities of the brain, more like, but yeah, the old ones should’ve been fulla lead decades ago.

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          I did not follow this that closely but the small part I did see had the judge do things like try to tell the jury that the ex wife of the deputy was not an expert witness in her own marriage and that the jury needed to treat her testimony as from a layperson unlike an expert witness like a deputy. Not really a surprise that the judge who let this play out and covered for the police continuously also tossed out the counter claim for property damage and theft.

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              Yeah, and I think the judge actually did more harm to the cops in this case. Most people on that jury would likely be rolling their eyes at that point. Also the cops calling afroman to the stand blew up in their faces hard, just take a watch if your so inclined:

              https://youtu.be/rE8mtNCsihE?t=19

              Like the guy or not that was a great shut down of the entire premise of the suit against him.

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                  When I have time I want to find the whole thing, but to be honest I don’t know if they even bothered to cross. I mean why would you?