[HN Gopher] US Police raids home; sues homeowner over CCTV foota...
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       US Police raids home; sues homeowner over CCTV footage of raid
        
       Author : s5300
       Score  : 56 points
       Date   : 2023-03-23 21:05 UTC (1 hours ago)
        
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       | ChickenNugger wrote:
       | > _The complaint says Foreman also "created dozens of videos and
       | images of Plaintiffs' personas and posted them on various social
       | media platforms including Facebook, YouTube, Snap Chat, TicTok
       | and Instagram."_
       | 
       | HN title is wildly misleading.
        
         | asveikau wrote:
         | I don't think so. The HN title accurately describes two events
         | that occurred.
         | 
         | The most easily misinterpreted part of the headline to me is it
         | says "US police" making it sound federal. It's a county
         | sheriff's office in Ohio.
        
         | nickthegreek wrote:
         | That is just additional information that didn't make it to the
         | headline. Other facts not included in the title is that the
         | cops took his money and didn't give it all back. Instead their
         | review stated that they miscounted the money when it came in...
        
           | ChickenNugger wrote:
           | They're not suing him over the footage. They're suing him for
           | publishing it all over the place in an attempt to monetize
           | it.
           | 
           | You don't have to be on the cops' side to see that the
           | headline is ridiculously misleading.
        
           | djbusby wrote:
           | We investigated ourselves and found we did nothing wrong.
           | 
           | System is totally broken.
        
       | reset-password wrote:
       | Since the issue looks to be the consent of the footage being
       | released, would it be the same situation if the footage came from
       | their body cams requested by FOIA? Provided all of their cams
       | didn't simultaneously and mysteriously malfunction of course.
       | Either way I hope things go Afroman's way on this. The raid
       | itself was complete clown shoes.
        
       | s5300 wrote:
       | Reason I'm posting this is because the raid itself earlier got
       | attention on HN in this thread:
       | 
       | https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34293904
       | 
       | Insert "we are not a police state" <here>
       | 
       | Potential suggested discussion: what are best practices in law-
       | enforcement-proofing (think local/state police, not feds) our
       | home security recording setups? Somewhere towards the beginning
       | of our video police can be seen physically covering an outside
       | camera, & towards the end they're seen physically disconnecting
       | the entire setup (to the best of my knowledge)
       | 
       | So, at this point the best thing is cameras hiding in plain
       | sight? Stealthily integrated into furniture? Idk.
       | 
       | p.s. - this happened extremely close to my childhood home & where
       | I spent most of my life.
        
         | biomcgary wrote:
         | From this situation, I would conclude that you have nothing to
         | hide unless you are guilty or a law enforcement officer, so I
         | would suggest covering the property with camera's pointed at
         | other cameras. Also, lots of dummy cameras, so that you forget
         | which cameras are real and just go on about your non-private
         | business (which is all of it).
        
       | olliej wrote:
       | So police make up "justification" for a warrant, the violent
       | armed invasion of his home turns up nothing because they made it
       | up the reason for the warrant.
       | 
       | Now they're saying his making a video with their faces in it is
       | making their jobs harder. Like dude you made your jobs harder
       | when you commit perjury to get a warrant. You make your jobs
       | harder when you smash down the victims door and swarm his home
       | with guns.
       | 
       | If the cops didn't want to be famous for violating other people's
       | rights maybe they should stop violating people's rights?
        
         | omgwtf1000 wrote:
         | The raid cost this guy real money, breaking in his door and
         | damaging who knows what. I hope he makes a ton of money from
         | this ordeal.
        
       | rfwhyte wrote:
       | If there's one thing police can't stand it's being held
       | accountable for their own actions.
       | 
       | If the cops break into your house based on completely fabricated
       | charges, destroy a bunch of your property and traumatize your
       | family, at least from where I'm sitting, it kind of feels like it
       | should be your right to record and disseminate footage of the
       | illegal home invasion however you like.
        
       | NoZebra120vClip wrote:
       | "US police" ???
       | 
       | Contrary to weird headline, this was Adams County Sheriff's
       | Office, and I know that fact because the Afroman video is still
       | on Heavy Rotation for me.
        
         | effingwewt wrote:
         | Indeed, just saw his remoxed video for the first time
         | yesterday!
         | 
         | Love that he's asking them via rap lyrics if they are going to
         | help fix his gate etc since they found nothing, and the first
         | response by them was to sue because it showed them being what
         | we all know that are?
         | 
         | I'm more depressed about this planet daily, my cup feels full.
        
       | glonq wrote:
       | I thought that HN discouraged hyperbolic/clickbaity/deceptive
       | titles.
       | 
       | "Homeowner" is a celeb [Afroman] and the "CCTV footage" was
       | published in social media and in music videos without their
       | consent.
        
         | eat wrote:
         | I'm curious to know why you believe these additional details
         | make the headline deceptive or change the story in any way.
        
         | nickthegreek wrote:
         | Headline is factual on all accounts
        
         | berry_sortoro wrote:
         | [dead]
        
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         | ChickenNugger wrote:
         | HN is exactly as wildly biased as all the other big tech sites.
         | 
         | It pretends to be unbiased but it's not.
         | 
         | You'll be flagged/banned for pointing this out.
        
       | berry_sortoro wrote:
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       | TheGigaChad wrote:
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       | jgsghcxs wrote:
       | unfortunately the sequela here will probably cops wearing black
       | face masks that cover their entire faces.
       | 
       | Sucks all around. And it's entirely plausible most the cops were
       | acting in good faith. They've got a hard job.
        
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