[HN Gopher] Do the cops suing Afroman after raiding his home hav...
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       Do the cops suing Afroman after raiding his home have a case?
        
       Author : wlkr
       Score  : 57 points
       Date   : 2023-07-22 16:30 UTC (6 hours ago)
        
 (HTM) web link (www.thefire.org)
 (TXT) w3m dump (www.thefire.org)
        
       | leephillips wrote:
       | I really appreciate the work Fire is doing, especially as the
       | ACLU seems to have lost some of its traditional interest in these
       | types of 1st Amendment cases.
        
         | asmor wrote:
         | It seems like a pretty "downhill" battle and repression
         | wouldn't really have worked either way if no entity like this
         | had intervened. It's a nice case to blow up for publicity and
         | further making fun of such blatantly corrupt and incompetent
         | cops, but I don't think it was in need of material resources to
         | win.
        
       | more_corn wrote:
       | Short answer: no
        
       | rolph wrote:
       | a case against them, yes.
       | 
       | BTW i would have never even known afroman if notfor the
       | promotional effect of the actions against him.
       | 
       | if you like whimsey he has it. he wont kick your door in, or
       | steal your money.
       | 
       | https://www.ogafroman.com/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Afroman
        
         | JimtheCoder wrote:
         | I knew him from the song, "Because I Got High..."
        
           | seanthemon wrote:
           | They used to use that song to teach us how bad weed was
           | 
           | Sucks for them, now I just love afroman
        
           | rolph wrote:
           | https://yt.artemislena.eu/watch?v=WeYsTmIzjkw
           | [bczIRHAZhigh][NSFW]
           | 
           | https://yt.artemislena.eu/watch?v=SIMcktul77c [colt45
           | 2zigzags]
           | 
           | https://yt.artemislena.eu/watch?v=0bNy7XO-SCI
           | [willyouhelpmefixmydoor]
           | 
           | https://yt.artemislena.eu/watch?v=9xxK5yyecRo
           | [lemonpoundcake]
           | 
           | also:
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           | https://yt.artemislena.eu/watch?v=Hu7DcpPgHM4 [secret
           | dungeon?]
        
             | hotpotamus wrote:
             | Ah, I saw the news of his legal trouble and had heard
             | "Because I Got High" before, but didn't put them together
             | to realize it was the same person. The version you linked
             | is more obscene than what I remember, but still delightful.
        
               | rolph wrote:
               | i NSFW'd it. it isnt radio version for sure.
        
               | hotpotamus wrote:
               | Probably a good idea, but that wasn't intended as a
               | complaint ;)
        
         | KingLancelot wrote:
         | [dead]
        
       | jrflowers wrote:
       | TLDR version of what the article concludes: No, not really.
        
         | CameronNemo wrote:
         | Betteridge's "Law" of Headlines strikes again.
         | 
         | https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betteridge's_law_of_headline...
        
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