Brett

And then all of a sudden,

He ends up in an Afro man video being called a pedophile and it being suggested that this is a child he's grooming for pedophilia.

And in another one, which became somewhat famous, Afro man saying about sleeping with the deputy's wife.

So these videos in particular, along with some of the other ones that are much more innocuous, culminated in a lawsuit against Afro Man alleging defamation, invasion of privacy and intentional infliction of emotional violence.

distress for afro man's part he argued he was simply exercising his first amendment rights when he did this and as far as the the invasion of privacy he's using publicly available footage so the footage of the raid and honestly well i mean we can talk about some of the other ones more the invasion of privacy is completely weak that's not going anywhere that's a loser because yeah i mean this is all public stuff i don't even know how it could be invasion of privacy

Intentional infliction of emotional distress, even if some of that sounds pretty bad, to actually get someone for an intentional infliction of emotional stress, it has to be something like you stole the body of their dead mother and destroyed it.

Like it's that's literally an example.

intentional infliction of emotional harm you almost never ever get it even if you get the underlying substantive claim because defamation yeah defamation is the real thing here the idea that he is spreading false information about these officers and therefore he has defamed them and therefore he is liable

And this was one of the claims, one of the defamation claims from at least one of the officers was he called me a thief.

He said I stole money from him.

I didn't steal money from him.

That's interesting because everybody out there, when they talk about this, they say they stole his money.

Well, that's what Afro Man says there during the trial.

They actually put on evidence about how this happened.

How Afro Man came to believe that money was stolen.

It seems like what happened was a simple miscount.

So they got $4,000, however much money.

An officer testified about it and explains how he miscounted it and why he miscounted it.

So the $390 wasn't actually stolen.

They didn't steal his money.