• Andy@slrpnk.net
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    21 hours ago

    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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      20 hours ago

      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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        16 hours ago

        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.