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The judge really loved the cops for some reason. So embarrassing for him.

Well, he probably interacts with them on a daily/weekly basis, or at least other people from their department, and probably don't want to end up on their bad side.

In the end, justice and freedom of expression seems to have prevailed, so doesn't really matter what the judge think/thought in the end.

If you think "justice and freedom of expression seems to have prevailed", then please consider the people who aren't famous and can't get media attention when this sort of thing happens to them. Justice and freedom of expression fail to prevail on the regular and this is just one win amongst many, many, many losses.

Even just in this instance justice would include damages for their destruction and an inquest into the warrant from the cop that wrote it to the judge that signed it.

For this one case. He seems to be a horribly biased judge though from what I saw in this case over the three days.

Justice didn’t prevail. Afroman had to spend THOUSANDS defending himself in this bullshit civil lawsuit, and his countersuit got thrown out because police have qualified immunity.

This is after they raided his house, bashed in his door, broke his cameras, stole his money, and then didn’t charge him with a single thing (and only returned part of the money).

There is no justice here.

One of my local (several states away) bakeries announced a "Afroman lemon cake macaron" today.

His legal costs are gonna be tiny versus his YouTube/Spotify revenue out of all this.

(And I wouldn't ignore the value he probably applies to being proven right in court, either.)

Which is great for him. The point being this happens to other people who aren't famous, and maybe don't want to spend their time asymmetrically fighting for themselves on social media.

That's fine, but "There is no justice here" is incorrect.

How so? The positives you described had nothing to do with the courts. That's just an outcome of his own savvy. If he didn't make the video or the song, he would be out a lot of money. That's not justice, that's an entertaining person using their virality to claw back some of what was taken from them. How would that go for Joe Average?

This is the story of a guy who got sued for being harassed and had to waste years of their time and money fighting it.

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