• FartMaster69@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      Police raided his house for no reason, found nothing, then he used footage of the raid recorded by his security cameras in several music videos.

      So naturally they sued him for defamation, and recently lost their case.

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        Well, they found some vape pens and some grass. They also found $5k in a sport coat. With local news present and multiple clerks counting it, they could not account for the total amount.

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          I’m actually surprised he had so much cash.

          I’ve known a few very wealthy people even 1 millionaire (it was the most stereotypical millionaire ever he was 100% sleeping with his secretary) and they never have cash on them. Their average weekly expenses are so high that they would never want to have to carry that much money around with them.

          So it’s sort of old that he had 5k just sitting in one of his pockets.

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            I probably should have added further context. I did watch the entire thing on YT this week after all. He’d recently done a show with Snoop and others at Red Rock. He was paid it cash and that was the jacket he put it in.

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      The guy in the bottom is the rapper Afroman. He’s most known for the song “Because I got high”.

      He lives in Ohio. Police raided his house looking for pot (probably because they they took his song seriously, which they shouldn’t have). He made a series of music videos using security footage complaining that they fucked up his house and broke shit for no reason at all, and the local police were so outraged and hurt by the public anger towards them that they sued Afroman for defamation for over a million dollars. The picture is from his court case, where a jury told them that was fucking bonkers, and agreed completely with his defense that he didn’t hurt their reputation by lying: they hurt their reputation by doing terrible shit on camera to an artist who told people what they did.

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        One of the things they were suing Afroman for was literally invasion of privacy after they broke into his house and went through all of his stuff. They had the nerve to sue him for invasion of privacy. wtf

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          I suppose their arguement is that they are the official government sanctioned privacy invaders and so what they do is ok.

          If they hadn’t broken so much stuff and unnecessarily trashed the place they would probably have some sort of point.

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            I’m guessing that’s Barbara Streisand? No clue what she did, but I’ve heard she’s a shitty person who tried to hide something so the internet blew it up?

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              It was her house. A photographer posted aerial photos of her house with her name and the town attached and she tried to get it taken down because she considered it a violation of her privacy.

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                In 2003, the American singer and actress Barbra Streisand sued the photographer, Kenneth Adelman, and Pictopia.com for US$50 million for violation of privacy.[4][5][6] The lawsuit sought to remove Image 3850, labeled as “Streisand Estate, Malibu”, an aerial photograph in which Streisand’s mansion was visible, from the publicly available California Coastal Records Project of 12,000 California coastline photographs. As the project’s goal was to document coastal erosion to influence government policymakers, privacy concerns of homeowners were deemed to be of minor or no importance.[7][8][9][10][11]

                Here’s the picture. I don’t know why you’re making up bullshit.

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                    And a hundred others. In public view. Not showing anything private. That was in a public database. That she sued someone for $50M because she didn’t like the criticism that she was callous to the environment.

                    Obvious nuisance SLAPP lawsuit.

                    Hope those billionaire boots taste good, at least.

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        Well, IMO, there’s no shame in loosing your guard for a second or two when you perceive a delicious smell.

        That’s actually the only part of the entire thing the cop shouldn’t be ashamed of.