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duxuptoday at 3:42 PM3 repliesview on HN

> In one of the music videos, “Will You Help Me Repair My Door,” surveillance footage shows officers swinging open a gate, kicking down a door, and roaming armed around a living room and a kitchen.

>The other, “Lemon Pound Cake,” shows one of the officers, gun in hand, pausing briefly in Mr. Foreman’s kitchen by a cake inside a glass cloche. “It made the sheriff want to put down his gun and cut him a slice,” Mr. Foreman sings in the song.

The man has a sense of humor.


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asveikautoday at 3:59 PM

Seems like the Streisand effect to me. Suing him over this calls attention to the inappropriateness of police raiding his house. I hadn't heard this story and now I took away from it some embarrassing stories about the cops.

dmixtoday at 4:40 PM

He's also a savvy businessman, this will be great for his career

mytailorisrichtoday at 4:52 PM

The lemon pound cake first features in the first video, "Will You Help Me Repair My Door" and seems to have become popular (a chubby sheriff deputy glancing at a lemon pound cake, gun in hand is a viral godsend!) so he made that second video about it [1] and it completely took off. I have watched videos outside the courthouse after the verdict and supporters were even handing free lemon pound cakes [2]. Has the apple pie got competition?

[1] https://youtu.be/9xxK5yyecRo?si=rnz34IxCeFPRKQ4M

[2] https://youtu.be/pSEOiu0RvLk?si=xx2ZrN1rzEg3n1Ve