{"id":148186,"date":"2026-03-19T12:04:10","date_gmt":"2026-03-19T12:04:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=148186"},"modified":"2026-03-19T12:04:10","modified_gmt":"2026-03-19T12:04:10","slug":"us-rapper-afroman-celebrates-after-court-protects-his-right-to-mock-policeunited-states-canada-south-china-morning-post","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=148186","title":{"rendered":"US rapper Afroman celebrates after court protects his right to mock policeUnited States &amp; Canada &#8211; South China Morning Post"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Source: United States &amp; Canada &#8211; South China Morning PostGrammy-nominated rapper Afroman won a defamation lawsuit filed by seven Ohio sheriff\u2019s deputies who sued him over music videos in which he used home security footage to mock their raid of his home.<br \/>\n\u201cWe did it, America! Yeah, we did it! Freedom of speech! Right on! Right on!\u201d the 51-year-old rapper, born Joseph Foreman, shouted outside the courthouse after the Wednesday evening verdict. He later posted the clip to social media.<br \/>\nThe case tested the limits of parody and the license artists can take&#8230;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/news\/world\/united-states-canada\/article\/3347194\/us-rapper-afroman-celebrates-after-court-protects-his-right-mock-police?utm_source=rss_feed\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"feedzy-rss-link-icon\" rel=\"noopener\">Read More<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: United States &amp; Canada &#8211; South China Morning PostGrammy-nominated rapper Afroman won a defamation lawsuit filed by seven Ohio sheriff\u2019s deputies who sued him over music videos in which&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148186"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=148186"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148186\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=148186"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=148186"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=148186"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}