Afroman is reportedly being sued by a number of Ohio sheriff deputies for allegedly profiting off the raid they conducted on his home last summer.
The Adams County Sheriff’s Department ran up on Afroman’s home last August, where officers searched for illegal narcotics but failed to find anything.
Afroman, who was in Chicago at the time of the raid, expressed confusion about why the incident had taken place and said he merely had some hemp and a vape pen on him. He thinks he was profiled for the music he makes such as the 2001 Top 20 Billboard hit “Because I Got High.”
Afroman filmed the entire raid via his security cameras, and in the months since the raid has compiled the footage together to turn it into a music video called “Will You Help Me Repair My Door.” This has reportedly upset the Ohio sheriff’s deputies involved in the raid as they believe Afroman to be profiting off their hard work.
According to the lawsuit obtained by TMZ, the deputies claim Afroman was not home at the time of the raid, but that his wife was and that she was the one responsible for recording the search on her phone. Authorities additionally claim that they never gave the California rapper permission to use the footage recorded on his security cameras.
In turn, the police are suing for invasion of privacy and misappropriation of their likenesses, and are claiming the music video has caused them emotional distress, ridicule, humiliation, loss of reputation and embarrassment.
Afroman has since responded to the lawsuit by telling TMZ the cops have no grounds to sue, especially since they took a stack of money from his property and at first, didn’t return $400 of the seized cash.
“My house is my property, my video camera films, everything on my property as they begin, stealing my money, disconnecting plus destroying my video camera system, they became my property,” Afroman said. “Criminals caught in the act, of vandalizing and stealing money. My video footage is my property. I used it to identify the criminals who broke into my house, and stole my money. I used it to identify criminals, who broke into my house, stole my money and disconnected my home security system.”
Afroman expressed another theory on Instagram shortly after the raid, where he said he thought police could possibly be retaliating over an old burglary report.
“While I’m out here working and paying taxes the Adams county sheriff department is at my house kicc-ing in my door and stealing my money,” he wrote. “One time my house got burglarize while I was on tour. For home insurance purposes I tried to fill out a police report. The cop came out three days later he told me they was really busy. He took my report. I would call every day and see if there was any progress being made.
“The Adams county sheriff department threaten to arrest me for checc-ing up on the case too frequently. I excepted the fact that the police department is not necessary here to protect and serve me a blacc man in America so I just took my loss and never called bacc. Now here they are kicc-ing in my door looking for weapons of mass destruction and 100,000,000 pounds of weed lol wow Donald Trump calls these investigations witchhunts.”
This what happens when white people start white peopleling. Y’all ran in that man’s house and y’all fd up. How they gonna be mad because he showing them how stupid they look????
this particular police force is not white people. you need to grow up if you want to seek justice and learn how to identify names and receipts. using white and black in anything political or law is extremely immature.
memba when that guy got beat to death by 5 black cops in memphis. that story came and went. where’s the peaceful protests? where’s the outrage? oh nvm it doesn’t support the racial divide narrative.
You mean the 5 cops that were immediately fired?
@US Grant
There was a ton of outrage, and there were quite a few peaceful demonstrations, it was all over the news for weeks. But nice try with your racial divide narrative.
Yeah because losing your job for beating a man to death in an outburst of gang violence is justice… That’s due process… Thin blue gang sign.
White people acting white? Did you mean white people acting black?
Using “white and black in anything political or law is extremely immature?”
Is that why the Dred Scott decision was written by the Supreme Court Kidzz Division, the Civil Rights Act of 1964 was passed by the 88th Teen Congress, and Ahmaud Arbery’s murderers were convicted of baby hate crimes?
Chshshsg
Hahahaha!!! So these “sheriff’s” is big mad cuz tAfroman made a music video showing they dumb asses running up on another brotha house and taking his money? Embarrassing yea it is. Whatever they deserve that. I mean check yo notes and homework. And they a gon complain how they’r treated and viewed. This that bullshit
Who?
Yo mama. She didn’t put up, “until she got high…da da da da da da da…”
“ Authorities additionally claim that they never gave the California rapper permission to use the footage recorded on his security cameras.” I wonder if the cops that filmed concertgoers at Drakes concert in Harlem get a pass but African doesn’t. They mad bc he busted them pocketing his money. Which they ONLY returned after he released the video. Let’s be real. These are dirty cops. You’re a cop. You crying about being shamed bc you effed up? YOU KNOW Afroman has been living rent free in their dusty a$$ minds.
Patrick Jenkins mother should’ve swallowed his dumb ass
Afroman will forever be targeted because of that footage of him molly-whoppin Molly on stage at one of his concerts haha. Excellent footage tho.
LOL LOL LOL OK, then…
I am not an OHIO lawyer, but I have been practicing law in California for almost 20 years and I don’t think that these redneck thieves’ lawyer read the whole statute. Ohio Revised Code Section 2741.09 says, right there in the text, that it does not apply to:
(1)(b) Material that has political or newsworthy value;
(3) The use of an aspect of an individual’s persona in connection with the broadcast or reporting of an event or topic of general or public interest.
If country-ass white cops kicking down doors to raid a black man’s house at gunpoint based on an anonymously sourced warrant, finding no evidence of the narcotics or kidnapping they were looking for, and stealing money from him isn’t newsworthy and/or of general or public interest, then why did millions of people watch the video of the raid?
What a bunch of wattle-necked turkeys.