COLUMBUS - Seven law enforcement officers in Ohio are suing rapper Afroman for using footage of their raid on his house last year in videos and merchandise for commercial purposes, according to a complaint.
The filing said the rapper’s actions had caused them to suffer “humiliation, ridicule, mental distress, embarrassment and loss of reputation,” and listed several counts of unauthorised use of their personas and invasion of privacy. The officers are seeking damages, including money from the profits he made from using their images, and a court injunction to remove the material, it said.
“Congratulations again you’re famous for all the wrong reasons,” he wrote in the caption of the post, published in September 2022. Earlier in the post, he called an officer “Police Officer Poundcake,” a reference to one of the officers in the footage who glances at a glass-domed dish holding a cake.