Rapper Afroman, whose legal name is Joseph Foreman, was cleared in a defamation case against seven sheriff's deputies in Adams County, Ohio, after a jury found he did not defame them or invade their privacy by publishing music videos about them after they raided his home in 2022. The officers, who had a warrant to search for evidence for drug trafficking and kidnapping, failed to find anything that would justify charges. Afroman argued that he had a First Amendment right to mock the deputies as public figures and that his lyrics could not be taken as literal statements of fact. The videos, which criticized the raid, also attributed various personal, professional and sexual transgressions to the deputies, were seen as intentional lies that harmed their reputations and made their lives and their jobs more difficult. Robert Klingler, the lawyer for the deputies argued that the search warrant execution was unfair and that Afroman's worldview was split between the two.