Ohio Police Officers Sue Afroman for Putting Security Footage of Them Raiding His Home in Music Videos - He wasn't even high

Rapper Afroman is being sued by several Ohio law enforcement officials after he put footage of their 2022 raid on his house in music videos about the incident.

The Grammy-nominated rapper, who is best known for his 2002 jam “Because I Got High,” made a whole album about the August 2022 raid in which police broke down his door based on a search warrant for drug trafficking and kidnapping. No evidence supporting those allegations was found and no charges were filed.

He told NPR of the incident, “I asked myself, as a powerless Black man in America, what can I do to the cops that kicked my door in, tried to kill me in front of my kids, stole my money and disconnected my cameras? And the only thing I could come up with was make a funny rap song about them and make some money, use the money to pay for the damages they did and move on.”

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The musician, whose given name is Joseph Edgar Foreman, wrote about the raid in several of his songs, including “Lemon Pound Cake,” which opens with they lyrics, “The Adams County sheriff kicked down my door, then I heard the glass break. They found no kidnapping victims, just some lemon pound cake.”

In the surveillance footage included in the video, police are shown kicking in the door and walking past the titular cake on the kitchen counter. Afroman told NPR that the cops also broke his video surveillance system and stole $400 from him.

Four deputies, two sergeants and one detective from the Adams County Sheriff’s Office are now suing him, his label and a Texas-based music distribution company for invasion of privacy.

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In the complaint filed last week, they said they have received death threats, and also suffered “humiliation, ridicule, mental distress, embarrassment and loss of reputation.” Unless the music videos and social media posts are taken down, “Plaintiffs will suffer irreparable injury to their reputations, their mental health, and their legally protected rights,” the complaint read.

They are also seeking all proceeds of the songs and videos, as well as his merchandise, including sales of the malt liquor made by his 4204 Main Street Brewing Company.

Afroman said his reaction to the lawsuit was “a drop of anger, disbelief and a little anxiety, followed by tons of laughter. I was thinking, these big bad cops … are being beat up and bullied by those little corny rap songs I made about them. I’m like, ‘Oh my god, are you letting me know that my raps are working on you?'”

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He was already planning a defamation lawsuit against the police and now plans to countersue. “I want to sue them for stealing my money, I want to sue them for writing ‘kidnapping’ on a warrant and making me suffer financially in my industry because just that accusation makes people raise an eyebrow about you,” he added.

In December, Afroman announced he was running for U.S. President in 2024 as an Independent on the platform of getting “weed legal everywhere.”

Watch the video for “Lemon Pound Cake” below:

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[JustStopDude]

Yea I'm aware, it's not I like niggers I definitely don't but cops are way too easily able to hide behind the "tee hee woopsy we ruined your life! Too bad we're immune from consequences" bullshit.

What amazes me now is you got cops with more tats than cholos. They look and act like gang bangers in a lot of places.

The bar for entry to get body armor, a gun, and qualified immunity is way too fucking low.

 

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You all seem riled up.
Did your pet nigger win his case?

This man's hard drive is absolutely full of Afrikan kweenz shaking their gigantic asses. He protests too much.

 

[Kakkerum420]

Niggers are basically overgrown toddlers, same low impulse control, no regulation of their emotions, and violent outbursts, just in a grown adult body rather than a pint sized frame. And kids really do say the darndest things.

Niggers are capable of being intentionally funny without body excretions.

 

[Starefag]

What amazes me now is you got cops with more tats than cholos. They look and act like gang bangers in a lot of places.

In many places, deputy gangs are quite common. Especially in the LA area. You have many police officers literally forming their own gangs in the force and leveraging union protection and qualified immunity to deal drugs and kill competition
It fuckin sucks right, because whenever you start talking about shit like this, you get assumed to be a leftie. No, I just want the dudes who act as the law in a given area to be held to a higher standard.

 

[Pennypacker]

Lisa lick em slow,
Lisa lick em fast,
Lisa lick that pussayyy,
Lisa lick that ass....

 

[Grapefruit Soda]

Please tell me it wasnt pound cake guy. That poor soul, his only crime was being caught hungry on camera.

Fat fucks eating food should be illegal, his crime should be a felony too.

 

[ObeseScreamingBlackMan]

I really want that lemon pound cake recipe.

 

[Kakkerum420]

Fat fucks eating food should be illegal, his crime should be a felony too.

Would you really condemn a man for the simple urge of craving a delectible slice of Afroman's mama's Lemon Pound Cake?

 

[Grapefruit Soda]

Would you really condemn a man for the simple urge of craving a delectible slice of Afroman's mama's Lemon Pound Cake?

Absolutely, fatties get the chair twice because the first time wouldn't do anything through all that blubber. Lemon pound cake is for people who aren't fat retards who lose court cases.

 

[A.P. Hill]

God dammit, now I have to side with the ACAB niggers.

 

[Kakkerum420]

Absolutely, fatties get the chair twice because the first time wouldn't do anything through all that blubber. Lemon pound cake is for people who aren't fat retards who lose court cases.

It sound like you haven't tasted a proper slice of Lemon Pound Cake.

 

[mango_reseller]

Total afro victory, fuck those pussies

 

[Amateur Shoelace Tyer]

All they had to do was spend 5 minutes looking up the manual release for his gate, not disconnect and damage his cameras, not seize his petty cash (the warrant was supposedly for evidence of human trafficking and evidence of drugs in a quantity to indicate intent to distribute), and tell Afroman they won't give him the $250 to fix his door because they had a warrant and they aren't responsible for damages caused by executing the warrant. A handful of retarded procedural mistakes have made them all into clowns and have handed a victory to some drugged out rapper while the masses celebrate his buffoonery. The Adams County (OH) Sheriff Department are officially more retarded than a perpetually baked old man so retarded that he had to repeat a class one semester because he could have cheated, and he could have passed, but then he got high.

 

[JustStopDude]

No, I just want the dudes who act as the law in a given area to be held to a higher standard.

That is the thing that breaks me. You got cops who in localities where there hasn't been a violent crime in decades and they act like they are a cross between the punisher and a special forces member.

Meanwhile the kid working the fryer at the local hardees is held to a higher standard because at least he can get fired for fucking up orders enough times.

 

[namelesstacotruck]

In many places, deputy gangs are quite common. Especially in the LA area. You have many police officers literally forming their own gangs in the force and leveraging union protection and qualified immunity to deal drugs and kill competition
It fuckin sucks right, because whenever you start talking about shit like this, you get assumed to be a leftie. No, I just want the dudes who act as the law in a given area to be held to a higher standard.

Established gangs also send people to join PDs and Prisons too.

Its super easy to get one of your guys in a prison and get control of the entire prison ecosystem. You can also sell shit like tobacco or cell phones for 10x.

 

[Blue Screen of Death]

I hope the lemon pound cake was worth it piggies.

 

[Awilix]

Afroman is proof that a black man can indeed not be a Nigger.

 

[Fishnumm]

fuck sicko cops who harrass innocent niggas

 

[Just Hamsters]

How many pounds of weed are in my CDs?

God, I love this site. Racism abounds but when a black man is right, he's right.

 

[Fats McGee]

Have had pretty much only positive interactions with rural people, the exception is rural cops.

As someone who lives in a rural area, you're exactly right. Most people out here are super nice, always have been. The issues are city niggers coming to shit up the woods and the river with their niggermusic and littering, and the cops.

One time when my mother worked the night shift, she was driving home around midnight. Mostly empty road, she reaches for an apple and swerves slightly. Cops start tailing her with no lights on, and only when she got to a dirt road with no houses or lights do they finally flip the lights on. This road, by the way, was one that the news was reporting fake cops were pulling women over on. My mother calls my dad, explains what's going on, and keeps him on the phone just in case. He's on speaker, and the cops immediately start getting pushy, asking if she's been drinking, the whole nine. Even made a few crude jokes about her "Coming back from a hard night at (local backwoods strip club)." Once they realized she was on the phone with someone and they'd gotten caught acting like jackasses, they got real mad, and started threatening to take her down to the station. They gave her a breathalyzer which blew 0.0, and still gave her a ticket for "speeding". My mother drives slower than shit, there's no way she was speeding. They were just pissed and petty. The next day my dad takes that ticket down to the station, and I have no idea what he said or did, but that ticket didn't have to get paid and it didn't go on any record.

It might not just be a rural thing, maybe cops are dipshits everywhere, but you definitely notice it more here because everybody knows everybody so their behavior feels way more brazen and bold. They aren't anonymous, they live down the fuckin' road. And they still make enemies out of everyone.