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[–] 187 points 6 months ago (5 children)

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.

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  • [–] 102 points 6 months ago (3 children)

    It’s the current right wing bitch move where they sue anyone that is critical of them. Most judges will throw it out but there’s a chance that they will get a MAGA judge that will bend over backwards with flimsy excuses for the right wingers.

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  • [–] 44 points 6 months ago (2 children)
  • [–] 137 points 6 months ago (1 child)

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

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  • [–] 230 points 6 months ago (20 children)

    Cops never heard of Barbara Streisand?

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  • [–] 65 points 6 months ago (14 children)

    I have completely forgotten about what exactly Streisand was trying to hide. I'm not sure I've ever seen the actual media she was embarrassed about.

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  • [–] 105 points 6 months ago (11 children)

    She was trying to have a picture of her house removed from a website. Link to wiki that contains the picture.

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  • [–] 46 points 6 months ago (5 children)

    I find it hilarious that I know what her house looks like but don't know a single one of her songs. Given that she wanted to hide the former and as an artist, probably wanted everyone to be exposed to the latter.

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  • [–] 1 point 6 months ago (2 children)

    This may be generational. There is not likely to be much intersection between the group of people who listened to Streisand and those who listen to Swift.

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  • [–] 5 points 6 months ago

    Two years later, Masnick coined the name when writing about Marco Beach Ocean Resort's takedown notice to urinal.net (a site dedicated to photographs of urinals) over its use of the resort's name.

    I guess that exists

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  • [–] 2 points 6 months ago

    It's interesting to read that, now that we have more of a bird's eye view of the whole situation. Streisand claims she never even wanted the image taken down, she just wanted her name removed from the image.

    It's pretty funny in retrospect, if removing her name was her goal, she probably could have made it happen if instead of filing a lawsuit, she just called the webmaster for that site and asked nicely.

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  • [–] 4 points 6 months ago (2 children)

    Was a great song, easy to sing along too.

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  • [–] 93 points 6 months ago (2 children)

    I wish them a very Afroman.

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  • [–] 74 points 6 months ago (11 children)

    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.

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  • [–] 35 points 6 months ago (9 children)
  • [–] 27 points 6 months ago* (5 children)

    It’s an excellent word, means a timid, meek, or unassertive person. I love it since it sounds like exactly what it is “”milktoast” sounds boring, unappealing, and bland, just like milquetoast people.. it’s an effective synonym regardless if intended or not :)

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  • [–] 16 points 6 months ago (2 children)

    They know. They were correcting a misspelling.

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  • [–] 6 points 6 months ago

    American media already has a quite cozy relationship with police and the military. I am surprised the police even want to rock the boat. All of their bullshit forensics is made to seem real before anyone even gets on a jury

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  • [–] 71 points 6 months ago (4 children)

    Discovery is gonna be hilarious.

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  • [–] [S] 30 points 6 months ago (3 children)

    If some random Redditors are to be believed the film actually paints the police in a semi positive light. There are a few bad cops but supposedly at the end most of the cops are shown to be acting with integrity.

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  • [–] 43 points 6 months ago (1 child)

    Okay.

    But the thing about defamation lawsuits is that the plaintiff (Miami PD) has to show and demonstrate that it’s in fact defamation. Mostly that comes down to lying about it and causing reputational harm.

    The defendants (or rather a team if interns owned by their lawyers,) gets to go into the the plaintiffs records to discredit those claims.

    In other words, the lawyers will get an all-access pass to Miami PD’s normally confidential files detailing extensive corruption. Because let’s be honest, there’s corruption there.

    They’ll drop it before it gets to discovery.

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  • [–] 55 points 6 months ago (1 child)
  • [–] 34 points 6 months ago (3 children)

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

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  • [–] 34 points 6 months ago (3 children)

    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.

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  • [–] 18 points 6 months ago (2 children)

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

    That would be kinda brilliant, but id be shocked if they were trying to pull that off.

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  • [–] 17 points 6 months ago (1 child)

    My guess is they're actually the scumbagiest of scumbag cops, but also stupid and offended and they're telling on themselves.

    Every accusation is a confession.

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  • [–] 33 points 6 months ago (2 children)

    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.

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  • [–] 30 points 6 months ago

    Yep yep, totally innocent person behavior

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  • [–] 28 points 6 months ago

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

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  • [–] 28 points 6 months ago

    have the cops tried not being dirty?

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  • [–] 27 points 6 months ago (3 children)

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

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  • [–] 27 points 6 months ago

    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.

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  • [–] 26 points 6 months ago (3 children)

    Florida cops... Hunting Good Will.

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  • [–] 23 points 6 months ago

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

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  • [–] 21 points 6 months ago

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

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  • [–] 21 points 6 months ago (2 children)

    Had zero interest in this film before this happened

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  • [–] 10 points 6 months ago (1 child)

    I still have no interest in it afterwards, but I do hope the court case is interesting.

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  • [–] 13 points 6 months ago

    I wasn't very interested either but I ended up enjoying it. They did the suspense pretty well and it was a solid enough story. The part I disliked was watching the shitty cop attitude and behaviors at all. But an undertone was that you can't tell normal police behavior from the criminal police behavior they're highlighting.

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  • [–] 19 points 6 months ago (8 children)

    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!<

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  • [–] 16 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (3 children)

    It would be more realistic if a group of bad cops tried finding the one good cop leaking their crimes.

    edit: Look up what happened to LAPD Officer Houston Tipping if you want to know what happens to good cops.

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  • [–] [S] 7 points 6 months ago (1 child)

    Honesty this film is fairly flattering

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  • [–] 3 points 6 months ago

    My thoughts exactly. Almost a complete reversal of "One Battle After Another"; I'm convinced the director for that one just wanted to make everyone look as evil/incompetent/misguided as possible in some kind of botched 'both sides bad' argument

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  • [–] 6 points 6 months ago

    Thats the most unrealistic part of the entire plot. Cops would NEVER rat on each other, thats exactly what the thin blue line is. "Thin blue line" might as well be "cops before citizens".

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    [–] 14 points 6 months ago (2 children)

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

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  • [–] 14 points 6 months ago

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

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  • [–] 13 points 6 months ago

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

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  • [–] 24 points 6 months ago (1 child)

    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.

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