Afroman is going through a lawsuit from seven regulation enforcement officers over him utilizing footage from a police raid of his dwelling in considered one of his music movies.
The officers have alleged that the rapper – whose actual identify is Joseph Foreman – took recordings of their faces that have been obtained from a raid which happened in Ohio in August 2022 and used them in music movies and social media posts with out their consent.
4 deputies, two sergeants and a detective have claimed that this has triggered them ‘emotional misery, embarrassment, ridicule, lack of repute and humiliation.’ All seven of them are in search of all of Foreman’s income from his use of their photographs, together with income from songs, music movies and live performance tickets, on prime of the promotion of his Afroman model and merch proceeds. They’re additionally demanding a courtroom injunction to take down all movies and posts utilizing their faces.
The lawsuit names Foreman straight, in addition to his recording model and a Texas-based media distribution firm as defendants.
Nonetheless, Foreman revealed in an Instagram put up on Wednesday (March 22) that he intends to countersue for ‘the illegal raid’ and ‘cash being stolen’, in addition to the injury triggered to his household, profession, and property.
He additionally defined why he publicised the digital camera recording within the first place, writing: “My video footage is my property. I used it to establish the criminals who broke into my home, and stole my cash.”
“I used it to establish criminals, who broke into my home, stole my cash and disconnected my dwelling safety system.
“I take advantage of my footage of my property to lift cash to pay for the damages they carried out and to establish the criminals working inside the sheriff division that stole my cash, [ransacked] my home and disconnected my video cameras.”
Foreman has posted quite a few occasions on Instagram since calling out the officers for his or her actions, describing them as “crooked cops” who he alleges “[invaded] an harmless man’s dwelling”.
NME has contacted the lawyer representing the officers for remark.
