Afroman is on trial for making fun of the cops who raided his house and he’s winning in every way that matters

In 2022, Adams County sheriff’s deputies in Ohio kicked down Afroman’s door, raided his home under a warrant for drug trafficking and kidnapping, found absolutely nothing, never arrested him, never charged him with anything, and left him with a broken door, a busted driveway gate, and $400 allegedly missing.

Afroman responded the only way he knows how. He made songs about it.

He posted videos. He used actual surveillance footage from the raid. He called one deputy a pedophile. He said he slept with another one’s wife. He named a song Lemon Pound Cake.

Afroman: Lemond Pound Cake

The videos went viral and the Adams County Sheriff’s Office became the most famous small-town law enforcement office in the country for about two weeks.

The deputies then decided to sue him for defamation. That brings us to this week and the actual trial, where Afroman continues to feed the internet extraordinary content.

Afroman took the stand and the plaintiff’s attorney asked him if there was anything that could change his mind about what he has been doing to these deputies.

Afroman looked at him and said that nothing could change his mind about the fact that they should not have been at his house in the first place and that his money should not have been touched.

The lawyer said thank you. Afroman said you’re welcome. The exchange ended. He also explained his entire legal philosophy from the witness stand in a way that is genuinely hard to argue with.

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“Fact, if they hadn’t came to my house, they wouldn’t have put themselves on the video camera and in my music career. All of this is their fault. And they have the audacity to sue me. I don’t go to their house, kick down their doors, flip them off on their surveillance cameras, then try to play the victim and sue them.”

The deputies on the stand have not been as articulate. Afroman’s defense attorney spent part of his cross-examination asking Sergeant Randy Walters whether being called a son of a bitch is a statement of fact or a statement of opinion.

Walters said it was an opinion.

The attorney then noted that there was no way to prove whether someone is a son of a bitch. Walters mentioned his mother had been dead for years.

The attorney apologized and moved on to asking whether being called Gomer Pyle was also a matter of opinion. It was. Nobody thought he was actually Gomer Pyle. Things continued from there.

Afroman’s Lawyer Cross-Examines Cop Suing Him for Defamation:

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Here’s the thing about the Afroman lawsuit.

Afroman’s videos went viral in 2022 and then largely faded back into the corners of the internet where these things live. By filing this lawsuit, the Adams County Sheriff’s Office has handed him a brand new platform, a national news story, and almost certainly more streams on Lemon Pound Cake than he has seen in years. There is no version of this trial that ends well for the deputies. They cannot win. Even if they win they lose.

Afroman came into this story as the guy who made that song about being high. He is leaving it as a folk hero who turned an illegal raid on his home into an art project, made the cops famous against their will, and is now sitting in a courtroom in rural Ohio explaining freedom of speech to a jury while his defense attorney asks a sergeant if he is actually Gomer Pyle.

Justice the Afroman way is a lot more entertaining than what the system usually delivers. And in this case, it might actually work.

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