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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I mean, discovery should be fun. “I need all body cam footage from all cops.”
Cops never heard of Barbara Streisand?
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.
She was trying to have a picture of her house removed from a website. Link to wiki that contains the picture.
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.
I grew up listening to her music because my parents liked it.
Now I also know that on a personal level she's probably a whiny little bitch
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.
If the picture were cropped to be just her house, it's not even a particularly high resolution.
Anytime i see a link to that article, i like to click over and take another look at that house. I like to think of it as doing my part keeping the Streisand effect strong.
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
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.
Was a great song, easy to sing along too.
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.
Milquetoast?
just put milksteak, she'll know what is.
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 :)
They know. They were correcting a misspelling.
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
Discovery is gonna be hilarious.
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.
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.
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.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
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.
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.
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.
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.
Cry harder Miami Pork Pies. There's lots of sand down there so go outside and beat it up.
Reminds me of Brett Farve suing Pat McCafee for mentioning his Mississippi swindle
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.
Florida cops... Hunting Good Will.
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.
Had zero interest in this film before this happened
I still have no interest in it afterwards, but I do hope the court case is interesting.
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.
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!<
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.
Honesty this film is fairly flattering
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".
I hope they hire Afroman's lawyer (and a PI to get the goods).
Sounds like they can just use the fox news defense. No reasonable person would take the movie litterally as fact.
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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