Cop grilled in Afroman defamation case hints he actually doesn’t know if rapper had sex with his wife

Did a rap star nail his wife? Beats him!

One of the cops at the center of the bizarre Ohio civil suit against Afroman made his failed case go haywire during testimony when he seemed to admit that he had no idea if the hip hop star was lying when he rapped about having sex with the officer’s spouse.

Sgt. Randy Walters did his defamation case no favors when he testified that the 51-year-old “Because I Got High” rapper had hurt his reputation with the steamy false assertion — then couldn’t say for sure if the claim actually was false.

Afroman’s lawyer, David Osborne Jr., grilled the Adam’s County Sheriff’s cop about the possible affair Tuesday before the rapper was found not liable in the case the next day.

“You’re claiming that the defamation statement is that he said he had sex with your wife?” Osborne asked, before adding. “We all know that’s not true, correct?”

“I don’t know,” Walters replied— motioning to the courtroom to possibly show he’s not sure what others think.

The lawyer seized on the ambiguity of Walters’ response, shooting back,  “You don’t know if your wife is cheating on you or not?”

“You want to go there?” Walters replied. “I’ve been with that woman since middle school but once someone puts it out there for their fun and entertainment it’s out there.”

“Is it a thing that can be verified true or false?” Osborne kept grilling.

“Ask your client,” Walters said — signaling the rapper would know if he’d slept with his wife.

The heated exchange came after Walters sued Afroman over one of the many songs and videos he made satirizing and mocking the poilce who raided his home. Walters took particular issue with the song, “Why You Disconnecting My Video Camera,” claiming lyrics caused him and his family pain.

“Randy Walters private cop/I used to f–k his wife doggy style,” the rapper declares in the music video, as an image of dogs having sex flashes.

“Randy Walters son of a bitch /That’s why I f–ked his wife and got filthy rich,” he raps in another tune. 

Walters, who is married and has six kids, said his half-black adopted daughter came home from school one day crying because children were claiming she was Afroman’s child.

“My daughter came home and advised me she was getting messed with at school because apparently her mom is having sex with Afroman and since she’s biracial he must be her daddy,” he testified, adding it was “horrible.”

Walters is one of seven sheriff’s officers in the rural Ohio county who sued Afroman in a bonkers, failed civil suit stemming from a fruitless drug raid they made on his home in 2022.

The rapper, whose real name is Joseph Foreman, later wrote a satirical song titled “Lemon Pound Cake” and made a music video that included actual footage of the raid, which yielded no charges against him.

He posted the goofy  music video with images of cops taken from his home surveillance cameras, initially to raise money for damages stemming from the search, he said.

But the officers claimed in a March 2023 lawsuit he’d gone too far with the song and subsequent posts— which they said smeared their reputations and made outrageous claims against them.

Several of the posts  allegedly falsely claimed that the cops “stole my money” and were “criminals disguised as law enforcement,” according to the suit. 

He was also accused of falsely stating that the officers are “white supremacists,” that Officer Brian Newman “used to do hard drugs” before “snitching” on his friends, that Officer Lisa Phillips is “biologically male” and that he had an affair with Walters’ wife,  according to the lawsuit. 

Many of his posts related to the sheriffs garnered hundreds of thousands of views, and the “Lemon Pound Cake” video raked in more than 3 million.

But a jury on Wednesday found the rapper not liable in the defamation case — which played out like legal theater, with Afroman rocking a full American flag suit and one cop breaking down in tears on the stand. 

The seven cops had sought a combined total of $3.9 million in damages, but a jury found Foreman not liable in just a several hours. 

“We see public officials all the time that are made fun of,” Osborne said in a closing statement Wednesday.“They are going to be held to higher standards, their work is going to be criticized, that’s just what happens when you’re a public official.”

“It’s a social commentary on the fact that they didn’t do things correctly,” he said of the cops.