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HN title is wildly misleading.
> The complaint says Foreman also “created dozens of videos and images of Plaintiffs’ personas and posted them on various social media platforms including Facebook, YouTube, Snap Chat, TicTok and Instagram.” HN title is wildly misleading.
The most easily misinterpreted part of the headline to me is it says "US police" making it sound federal. It's a county sheriff's office in Ohio.
> The complaint says Foreman also “created dozens of videos and images of Plaintiffs’ personas and posted them on various social media platforms including Facebook, YouTube, Snap Chat, TicTok and Instagram.” HN title is wildly misleading.
If the cops break into your house based on completely fabricated charges, destroy a bunch of your property and traumatize your family, at least from where I'm sitting, it kind of feels like it should be your right to record and disseminate footage of the illegal home invasion however you like.
I thought that HN discouraged hyperbolic/clickbaity/deceptive titles. "Homeowner" is a celeb [Afroman] and the "CCTV footage" was published in social media and in music videos without their consent.
So police make up “justification” for a warrant, the violent armed invasion of his home turns up nothing because they made it up the reason for the warrant. Now they’re saying his making a video with their faces in it is making their jobs harder. Like dude you made your jobs harder when you commit perjury to get a warrant. You make your jobs harder when you smash down the victims door and swarm his home with guns. If…
Contrary to weird headline, this was Adams County Sheriff's Office, and I know that fact because the Afroman video is still on Heavy Rotation for me.
> The complaint says Foreman also “created dozens of videos and images of Plaintiffs’ personas and posted them on various social media platforms including Facebook, YouTube, Snap Chat, TicTok and Instagram.” HN title is wildly misleading.
That is just additional information that didn’t make it to the headline. Other facts not included in the title is that the cops took his money and didn’t give it all back. Instead their review stated that they miscounted the money when it came in…
System is totally broken.