by Cedric ‘BIG CED’ Thornton
March 18, 2026
The Ohio cops are suing him after he made a music video utilizing the footage of the raid that exhibits their likeness.
Joseph Foreman, higher recognized to the world as Afroman, gave testimony in the course of the second day of a trial on March 17, defending himself towards Ohio cops who raided his residence in 2022. The division sued him in 2023 after the entertainer used footage from the raid in a tune and music video produced after the incident.
The recording artist, whose greatest hit was the weed anthem, “As a result of I Obtained Excessive,” has been taken to courtroom by a number of Adams County Sheriff’s deputies. In a lawsuit filed in 2023, they are saying that Afroman used video footage from his safety cameras of the August 2022 raid that passed off at his residence in a music video with out getting permission from the officers seen within the video. The “salty” cops alleged that they’ve suffered humiliation and acquired loss of life threats.
The deputies declare that Afroman’s music and social media posts have brought about “humiliation, ridicule, psychological misery, embarrassment and lack of repute.”
The tune in query is titled “Lemon Pound Cake.”
After posting the tune’s video, it went viral on his Instagram web page, exhibiting the deputies breaking down his door and coming into with their rifles drawn.
Nevertheless, he faults the officers for raiding his residence in error, stating they wouldn’t have been there in the event that they hadn’t made that mistake.
“All of that is their fault,” Foreman stated in the course of the courtroom listening to. “In the event that they hadn’t wrongly raided my home, there could be no lawsuit, I might not know their names, they wouldn’t be on my residence surveillance system, and there could be no songs … my cash would nonetheless be intact.”
“They’re suing me for his or her mistake,” he stated.
A number of officers have given testimony, together with Deputy Lisa Phillips, who broke down on the stand. Prosecutors performed the video in the course of the second day of trial, and she or he claims she has been harassed by individuals who query her gender and sexuality.
Because the video performs, she is seen crying on the stand.
Foreman feels that he has the appropriate to make movies and posts utilizing the footage that exhibits the deputies breaking down his door, inflicting injury, and allegedly stealing cash in the course of the raid.
He careworn the tune and music video was a matter of his free speech. “Reality, they by no means ought to have got here to my home within the first place. Reality, in the event that they hadn’t got here to my home, they wouldn’t have put themselves on the video digital camera and in my music profession. All of that is their truth. All of that is their fault. They usually have the audacity to sue me,” he testified.
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