I think Afroman has helped expose something significant by mercilessly mocking the assholes with badges who fucked up and raided his house in 2022, and it was the tears of a woman who previously held her finger on the trigger of an AR-15 in the raid that sealed it: Sheriff Offices and police forces have a strategy of playing the victim card when called out, and this strategy is made more plausible with hiring women, since they make such lovely victims on the stand.
After the raid, which resulted in ZERO charges, Afroman turned his anger into hilarity by making parody music–something our first amendment once protected–but the popularity made Adams County Sheriff Deputies look like little bitches, so they sued Afroman. I guess the collective stupidity of the Adams County Sheriff’s Office prevented them from thinking about the Streisand effect, which I am now embodying by writing about the litigation now taking place in an actual courtroom.
Here’s the gist of the legal claims coming from the people with the power to kill you now using lawyers and the court system to issue official, actionable accusations about how traumatized they are because Afroman made music about them:
Four deputies, two sergeants and a detective with the sheriff’s office filed the suit alleging that the music video, which has been viewed over 3 million times since December 2022, defamed them, invaded their constitutional privacy and was an intentional infliction of emotional distress.
The agents had been acting on a warrant asserting probable cause for narcotics being stored and kidnappings taking place on the property.
No evidence of criminal activity was found on the property, and no charges were filed.
To make this bullshit stick, one of the gun-toting deputies made sure to cry real good for the judge and jury as she does what she was perhaps hired to do.
And here’s Afroman explaining how his creative process works, starting with the fact he wouldn’t even know the names of these “public servants” had they not descended on Afroman’s home, broken shit, and generally acted like a violent gang of thugs:
“If they hadn’t wrongly raided my house, there would be no lawsuit, I would not know their names, they wouldn’t be on my home surveillance system, and there would be no songs … my money would still be intact.”
Money? Yes, despite no criminal charges, money was taken, surveillance cameras were tampered with BY the deputies, and Afroman’s family was terrorized. Here’s how the raid was depicted by the rapper three years ago, in an NPR piece:
“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?” he says. “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.”
He released an album with songs about the raid and made music videos out of the surveillance footage. He created merchandise and social media posts calling out the officers who had been involved.
Now, some of them are suing him, his label, and a Texas-based music distribution company for invasion of privacy.
If you don’t think this case has local relevance you clearly don’t know how Missoula PD took a situation outside a bar where a scuffle had taken place and turned it into a beat-down of Brandon Bryant, the drone whistleblower who can’t handle wood products without local law enforcement being absolutely terrified of him. There was even eager prosecutors to place an ADDITIONAL criminal charge on Bryant because his online speech further victimized the poor cops who can kill anyone they want and get away with it. I mean, if the SHERIFF’S office can euthanize a black man without nary a peep from those who allegedly care about such thing, what do city cops really have to worry about?
I know EXACTLY what they’re worried about, and it’s this: losing control of the narrative. That’s why it’s not just individuals who play the victim card to evade accountability, it’s entire institutions. Has that been the strategy behind female hires within the world of law enforcement?
War aggressors LARP’ing as victims is actually the insane, inverted ethos of an entire nation currently fulfilling its religious script by making Nick Fuentes sound prophetic and Candace Owens sound sympathetic. At what point will they reference the well-known training that law enforcement agencies across America have engaged in thanks to the generosity of their benefactors.
Though ten years old, this article is more relevant now than ever. Here’s an excerpt:
When the U.S. Department of Justice published a report opens in a new tab on August 10, 2016, that documented “widespread constitutional violations, discriminatory enforcement, and culture of retaliation” within the Baltimore Police Department (BPD), there was rightly a general reaction of outrage.
But what hasn’t received as much attention is where Baltimore police received training on crowd control, use of force and surveillance: Israel’s national police, military and intelligence services.
Baltimore law enforcement officials, along with hundreds of others from Florida opens in a new tab, New Jersey opens in a new tab, Pennsylvania, California opens in a new tab, Arizona opens in a new tab, Connecticut, New York opens in a new tab, Massachusetts, North Carolina, Georgia opens in a new tab, Washington state opens in a new tab as well as the DC Capitol police have all traveled to Israel for training. Thousands of others have received training from Israeli officials here in the U.S. opens in a new tab
Many of these trips are taxpayer funded while others are privately funded. Since 2002, the Anti-Defamation League, the American Jewish Committee’s Project Interchange and the Jewish Institute for National Security Affairs have paid for police chiefs, assistant chiefs and captains to train in Israel and the Occupied Palestinian Territories (OPT).
While Afroman’s lawsuit may help him get MORE attention and money, I’m hoping stories like his will help locals in Missoula better understand why Pirate Booty’s candidacy for Missoula Sheriff was so necessary. Now, if you’ll excuse, I have some video content to create.
Thanks for reading!
