The ACLU of Ohio filed a brief Wednesday in support of Afroman after the rapper was sued by a sheriff’s department when he turned footage of their botched raid on his home into his latest music video.
In March, seven members of the Adams County Sheriff’s Office filed a lawsuit against the weed-loving rapper, born Joseph Foreman, for invasion of privacy after they unwillingly featured in his video for “Will You Help Me Repair My Door?”; the song and video documents an August 2022 raid the sheriff’s department executed on Afroman’s home on a warrant alleging drug trafficking and kidnapping.
Afroman’s home was ransacked, and his front door was destroyed in the raid, ultimately serving as fodder for the rapper’s recent music. Unfortunately, the Adams County Sheriff’s Office lacked a sense of humor and filed the lawsuit against Afroman, which the ACLU now argues should be dismissed. “This case is a classic entry into the SLAPP suit genre: a meritless effort to use a lawsuit to silence criticism,” the ACLU of Ohio wrote in“And not just any criticism, but criticism specifically of government actors. Plaintiffs are a group of law enforcement officers who executed what appears to have been a highly destructive and ultimately fruitless search of a popular musician’s home.
The ACLU’s brief continued, “It is nothing short of absurd for Plaintiffs to claim that Mr. Foreman has somehow invaded their privacy. By their own account, Plaintiffs are law enforcement officials who were engaged in official business at the time of the search shown in the videos. They were in Mr. Foreman’s home, not their own. Nothing about Mr. Foreman’s expression involves matters of Plaintiffs’ intimate personal privacy that could be protected by law.
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