After Ohio police raided Afroman’s home and found nothing, he used his security footage to make “diss tracks” about them. The cops sued him for $4M for “humiliation” — but a jury just ruled entirely in his favor on all 13 counts.
by XaltotunTheUndead
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Afroman, the Grammy-nominated rapper the world knows as the guy who wrote “Because I Got High,” just beat the cops in court and it wasn’t even close. In August 2022, seven deputies from the Adams County Sheriff’s Office in Ohio kicked down his door with guns drawn, tore through his house looking for drugs and kidnapping evidence, found absolutely nothing, filed zero charges, and still somehow managed to walk off with roughly $400 of his cash. The whole thing was caught on Afroman’s home surveillance system, which the deputies also tried to disconnect. When you hand a rapper that kind of footage and steal his money, you probably shouldn’t be surprised by what happens next.
What happened next was “Lemon Pound Cake,” a viral song and music video built around security footage of one of the deputies stopping to eye a cake sitting on the kitchen counter while holding a drawn pistol. The album it spawned has 14 tracks, each one a diss aimed directly at the officers involved. The deputies sued him in 2023, seeking nearly $3.9 million, claiming defamation, invasion of privacy, and emotional distress. The trial was pure chaos in the best way. Deputy Lisa Phillips wept on the stand as Afroman’s 13-minute video about her played for the courtroom. The rapper responded on Instagram asking where those tears were when she was standing in his yard with an AR-15. Then in a move straight out of a movie, Afroman’s only defense witness was the ex-wife of one of the plaintiff deputies, Rhonda Grooms, who testified that her former husband and his colleagues were laughing and joking about the songs.
After just hours of deliberation, the jury sided entirely with Afroman on all counts. Wearing a full American flag suit outside the courthouse, he shouted “We did it, America! Freedom of speech!” This is a man who turned a police state overreach into a platinum-level trolling campaign, funded his own home repairs with the proceeds, and then beat the cops in their own court. Afroman is, without question, an American hero.
Officer pound cake getting delivery of poundcakes is genius.
Keep it up people…we are many…they are few
Randy Walters is a son of bitch
There’s an old saying that you shouldn’t start an argument with someone who buys ink by the barrel. This is the modern equivalent.
Without Afroman, I would have never known that Sherriff Randy Walter is a son of a bitch who got fired for drug use and then got hired at a different station after he moved.
Funny how our employment or social media history can come back to haunt us when looking for a new job, but as long as a cop doesnt get charged well then, he’s just a fellow brother.
Where do we send the pound cake?
I can’t wait for the song about the court ruling to come out 🤣
As was expected. Unfortunately, my understanding is that since the warrant itself was legally issued, he doesn’t get compensated for damages.
Should also be added that the judge ruled that he was responsible for paying half of the courts costs which is extremely unusual according to other lawyers. The judge was very clearly biased in this trial.
That album is hilarious!
Trust me, this is the ONLY good news coming out of Ohio lately
Man this is the most I’ve laughed in years, I was in literal tears when the guy answered “I don’t know” after the lawyer asked him if it was true that Afroman was having sex with his wife.
I’m starting to think Randy Walters might be a son of a bitch.
I hate that Afroman had to go through this, but thisnwhole trial has been the funniest fucking thing I’ve followed in a very long time. Hope he can make some money off it
this trial was hilarious. Them asking the officer if Afroman did fuck his wife and the officer getting mad for some reason at his wife saying he doesn’t know if she fucked him or not is so hilarious. You couldn’t make this as a SNL skit it’s so good haha.
Lemon 🍋 pound cake! 🇺🇸
My band played a show with him last year, he was a nice guy irl, had a pretty funny guitar –
https://i.imgur.com/Wrt6b0U.jpeg
He destroyed the attorney when he was testifying. It was so bad that attorney should go work for Walmart
Did anyone see the video of the cop getting questioned about whether or not Afroman banged his wife?!?!
The ‘confidential informant’ who was the basis for the raid claimed said there was drugs and kidnapping at the place specifically noting a basement. There was no basement on the property. . .
The judge who signed off on that shit should’ve been dissed too.
I support creativity in all of its forms…
This is remarkably refreshing.
This event puts The Streisand Effect to shame. This was on a whole other level
To get called for jury duty and land a case like this would be a dream. I didn’t give two shits about Afroman but his stock just went through the roof lemme tell ya.
Get they ass, Afroman.
I don’t know the whole story here but it sounds to me like this was an illegal search and seizure and yet the police were the ones somehow humiliated?
I know there is generally more good than bad in this country but it really feels that the scales are tipping the other way with every passing day.
Glad to see the good guy won in this case of stupidity against an American citizen who appeared to do nothing wrong.
These cops were used to bullying those who can’t fight back. The fact they literally cried while testifying made it clear being offended by someone they can’t physically attack or use the legal system to bury them in legal expenses (unlike Afroman who could afford it) is a first to them.
Unfortunately, these officers will never truly pay for their career of a abusing the public.