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Re:Police sue rapper Afroman for using footage of home raid ... by pengaru on Thursday March 23, 2023 @11:26PM (#35284720)
For the curious, here's the judge who signed the "kidnapping" warrant:

https://www.adamscountycourts.com/images/REG.jpg

Re:Police sue rapper Afroman for using footage of home raid ... by justin66 on Thursday March 23, 2023 @11:42PM (#35284832)
Of course his warrant didn't make sense, he was wearing David Byrne's Stop Making Sense suit.
Re:Police sue rapper Afroman for using footage of home raid ... by brianwawok on Thursday March 23, 2023 @11:42PM (#35284836)
Whoa how did you get a picture of Peter Griffin?
Re:Police sue rapper Afroman for using footage of home raid ... by analyte123 on Thursday March 23, 2023 @11:56PM (#35284918)
"Kidnapping" basically allows you to legally SWAT someone as long as you're in earshot of their house. Some years back a friend of mine had a SWAT team show up because someone "heard a girl screaming"; when he refused to answer the door, they flashbanged his apartment and busted in (then he was evicted because of a clause that said your landlord can kick you out for being merely suspected of a crime).
Re:Police sue rapper Afroman for using footage of home raid ... by scruple on Friday March 24, 2023 @12:41AM (#35285167)
I had something similar happen to me once. The police claimed to have seen a "girl in distress" when they knocked on the door of a house party and spoke to the host. They came back 15 minutes later with an EMT and forced entry. They arrested me (paraphernalia and possession charges -- though none of it was actually mine). I was released that night on my own recognizance, they kept my clothing "as evidence," and I had to walk to a friends (3/4 of a mile) wearing only my boxers in December. The charges were later dropped.

I was targeted that night because the sergeant on duty had a real thing against my brother, but my brother had left town a couple of years prior after joining the Army, and so he directed his bullshit at me. This was back in the '90s in a small rural area in Ohio. A place very similar to where Afroman lives today, in fact only a couple of counties away.

Re:Police sue rapper Afroman for using footage of home raid ... by lostlogin on Friday March 24, 2023 @03:57AM (#35286274)
I wonder if the ‘2 counties away’ makes it the same county as that which audits the botched raid in the article.
Re:Police sue rapper Afroman for using footage of home raid ... by scruple on Friday March 24, 2023 @12:06PM (#35291080)
What county audited the Adams County Sheriff? I've only seen Hamilton County and Adams County pop up in this story.

edit/ Oh, I see. It was Clermont County. Nope, not it. I don't want to place my younger self with pinpoint accuracy here but I grew up in southern/southeastern Ohio.

Re:Police sue rapper Afroman for using footage of home raid ... by lostlogin on Friday March 24, 2023 @01:53PM (#35292975)
Sorry, I didn’t think of that aspect.

It would have been an interesting aside, but it wasn’t to be.

Re:Police sue rapper Afroman for using footage of home raid ... by pyuser583 on Friday March 24, 2023 @12:28AM (#35285090)
Wow. That’s nuts.
Re:Police sue rapper Afroman for using footage of home raid ... by amelius on Friday March 24, 2023 @06:35AM (#35287274)
The law is like a piece of really stinkingly bad code. There's even a StackOverflow for law: https://law.stackexchange.com/ perhaps officials should check it out some time.
Re:Police sue rapper Afroman for using footage of home raid ... by Zurrrrr on Friday March 24, 2023 @12:35AM (#35285131)
I guess he just wanted some lemon pound cake also.
Re:Police sue rapper Afroman for using footage of home raid ... by prmoustache on Friday March 24, 2023 @04:34AM (#35286512)
Looks like he really like Lemon Pound Cake too.
Re:Police sue rapper Afroman for using footage of home raid ... by mbfg on Friday March 24, 2023 @08:45AM (#35288299)
is that where Boss Hogg wound up. It's a small world.
Re:Police sue rapper Afroman for using footage of home raid ... by snickerbockers on Friday March 24, 2023 @11:12AM (#35290096)
That guy looks even more like Peter Griffin than the lemon pound cake cop.