Cops never heard of Barbara Streisand?

Gee, sure sounds a lot like what they did to Afroman. This must be a new tactic spreading amongst the police union to crush public criticism since just not committing crimes as police officers seems to be too lofty of a goal.

I mean, discovery should be fun. “I need all body cam footage from all cops.”

I wish them a very Afroman.

Matt Damon and Ben Affleck are being sued through their production company, Artists Equity, over their latest Netflix crime thriller, The Rip, which Miami police allege falsely depicts them as “dirty.”

You know how shit most movies are now? If the MPD wins, movies will get even worse. Just bland, milktoast, safe bullshit, because they won't be able to get insurance for anything even mildly edgy.

But, last time I checked the First Amendment was still in effect, and people are free to criticize and parody authority figures. So, I don't think this will go anywhere.

Discovery is gonna be hilarious.

Yea its the actors fault...

https://www.justice.gov/usao-sdfl/pr/former-city-miami-police-officer-sentenced-corruption-charges

https://miamibeach411.com/blog/miami-river-cops

https://www.miaminewtimes.com/news/miami-cops-claim-corruption-retaliation-in-whistleblower-suits-against-city-16695149/

https://www.miamiherald.com/news/local/community/miami-dade/article314850877.html

https://www.foxnews.com/us/miami-police-chief-being-fired-after-6-months-on-the-job

https://www.nbcmiami.com/news/local/dozens-of-south-florida-officers-charged-in-past-5-years-following-use-of-force-allegations/2856383/

I hope they donate their countersuit money to an anti police corruption charity.

These cops are either idiots or they are trying to reveal a lot of dirt on their colleagues. Either way, I'm looking forward to it.

The idea that the police must be held above suspicion and assumed heroic is one of the worst things that can happen to good law enforcement. Good law enforcement requires the public to always be scrutinizing the cops.

Yep yep, totally innocent person behavior

But for some reason they didn't mind the TV show Dexter?

Their lab geek was a proficient serial killer.

Debra was a murderer and covered up crimes. Often violated constitutional rights including shoving a gun in a kids face.

Doakes was a murderer. Often violated constitutional rights.

Quinn was dirty, stole crime scene money, took bribes, tampered with evidence, and covered up murdering someone. Often violated constitutional rights.

LaGuerta was dirty and violated constitutional rights.

Batista knew of cop crimes and often looked the other way. Beat a man because of his words and put him in hospital. Several times violated constitutional rights.

Harry Morgan fucked his CI's and taught his son to murder and avoid the law.

Matthews fucked prostitutes, violated constitutional rights, and was generally dirty.

Seems like the only character that wasn't a criminal was Masuka. His only crime was he liked to fuck.

Hey! We're a corrupt police force, and by showing that by having actors act like that created unnecessary attention and annoying questions we don't want to deal, with.

Reminds me of Brett Farve suing Pat McCafee for mentioning his Mississippi swindle

Cry harder Miami Pork Pies. There's lots of sand down there so go outside and beat it up.

have the cops tried not being dirty?

Florida cops... Hunting Good Will.

Defamation requires 4 things:

1. An objectively false statement, portrayed as fact, not opinion.
2. Publication to a third party.
3. Negligence on the publisher, i.e. failure to attempt to confirm the truth of the matter.
4. Actual harm to the victim's reputation and business.

So number 2 is clearly covered as they produced and released a film about it. Number 4 would arguably be covered by the defamation per se doctrine which says that accusation of a crime is de fact harmful to one's reputation.

The problem with the suit is that the film makes so claims of fact. It is disclaimed as a dramatization. A fictional story only based on actual events. Essentially it's historical fiction but with contemporary events as the basis of the history. The characters portrayed are neither named as our based on real cops.

Those things don't necessarily protect them in and of itself, though. It really comes down to whether a reasonable person watching the film would come away thinking the events were fictional or a claim of facts. But I think the general audience is aware how accurate "based on a true story" films tend to be. No one reasonable is expecting the film to be a documentary.

It should be noted that they're not being sued as actors, but rather for their owning of the production company.

Soon: Miami police sued by Miami police for depicting them as 'thin-skinned crybabies' in reality.

There is a YouTuber called Alicia x life. She used to do sports commentary on professional video gamers.

She is literally been all over the world, and said that Miami Florida was the only city where she was constantly harassed because of her skin color.

Had zero interest in this film before this happened

This is even funnier as someone who watched the entire film because >!they weren't actually corrupt, they were just trying to find the person on their team who was!<

ACAB

america is not a real nation is it?

Sounds like they can just use the fox news defense. No reasonable person would take the movie litterally as fact.

I hope they hire Afroman's lawyer (and a PI to get the goods).

Sounds like a big, blue club of whiny little bitches.