{"id":610465,"date":"2026-07-29T19:43:13","date_gmt":"2026-07-29T19:43:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/610465\/"},"modified":"2026-07-29T19:43:13","modified_gmt":"2026-07-29T19:43:13","slug":"afroman-sues-officer-who-raided-his-home-sued-him-and-lost","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/610465\/","title":{"rendered":"Afroman Sues Officer Who Raided His Home, Sued Him, and Lost"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tAfroman<\/a> has filed a lawsuit against one of the officers who raided his home in 2022 and later sued him after he turned footage of the botched raid into music videos. The musician, real name Joseph Edgar Foreman, won the\u00a0highly publicized defamation lawsuit<\/a>\u00a0brought against him by officers at his local sheriff\u2019s office.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\n\tThe civil suit filed in Adams County, Ohio on Monday, July 27 and obtained by Rolling Stone, accuses Brian K. Newland, one of the officers involved in the case and defamation lawsuit, of malicious prosecution, abuse of process, intentional infliction of emotional distress, and tortious interference with contract.<\/p>\n

\n\tIn the summer of 2022, at least nine officers from the Sheriff\u2019s Department in Adams County raided Foreman\u2019s home on suspicion of drug trafficking and kidnapping. Following the raid that left his home ransacked<\/a>, they found neither drugs nor any evidence of kidnapping. No charges were filed. Foreman turned footage of the raid into a series of music videos that went viral, over which the officers sued him in 2023 for defamation and false light, among other claims. In March, the officers \u2014 who claimed they were owed $3.9 million in damages \u2014 lost the suit.<\/p>\n

\n\tHis win at trial became of symbol for freedom of speech<\/a>. The American Civil Liberties Union of Ohio filed an amicus brief calling the suit a \u201cmeritless effort to use a lawsuit to silence criticism \u2026 of government actors.\u2026 There is nothing the First Amendment protects more jealously than criticism of public officials on a matter of public concern.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tDuring his explosive testimony<\/a>, Foreman said, \u201cAll of this is their fault,\u201d he testified. \u201cIf they hadn\u2019t wrongly raided my house, there would be no lawsuit, I would not know their names\u2009\u2026\u2009there would be no songs, nothing.\u2026\u2009They\u2019re suing me for their mistake.\u201d At the trial, Foreman claimed the officers stole money from him during the raid, and when he went to pick up the seized cash, it was $400 less than what was recorded in sealed evidence bags. Newland testified that he miscounted the money and denied stealing the money.<\/p>\n

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\n\tIn a July interview with Rolling Stone,<\/a> Foreman pondered why his story went viral. \u201cThe more powerless human being has been violated by these types of governments, not necessarily having a solution. This was a case in time when a powerless man won against powerful government officials.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tThe new suit filed by Foreman is seeking at least $150,000 in damages, which includes at least $25,000 for attorney\u2019s fees and costs. Attorneys for Foreman and Newland did not immediately reply to requests for comment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Afroman has filed a lawsuit against one of the officers who raided his home in 2022 and later…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":610466,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[268],"tags":[179292,434,20705,21209,18,117,19,17],"class_list":["post-610465","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-afroman","tag-celebrities","tag-controversy","tag-courts-and-crime","tag-eire","tag-entertainment","tag-ie","tag-ireland"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/117004979705876123","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/610465","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=610465"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/610465\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/610466"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=610465"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=610465"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=610465"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}