Justin Coffman spent a month behind bars and had his home raided because of his band's promotional photo shoot
Justin Coffman, a member of an anarcho-punk band called The Gunpowder Plot, was the target of a June 2020 home raid in Jackson, Tennessee, after he posted three professionally shot images on his band’s Facebook page. The photos showed him standing in front of a police vehicle and posing with a fake Molotov cocktail behind his back.
These professionally shot images, which Coffman posted to Facebook, were initially held up as evidence to support the search warrant affidavit. Based on the totality of the affidavit, Anderson wrote, “a reasonably prudent person would not be warranted in believing that Coffman was in possession of a hoax device or improvised explosive incendiary device.
Anderson’s order tears apart the affidavit, written by Jackson Police Maj. Phillip Kemper, that formed the basis for the search of Coffman’s house. Anderson wrote that Kemper, as well as others like Jackson Police Lt. Chris Chestnut, should have had the common sense to realize that Coffman’s highly curated and First Amendment-protected images to promote his band did not offer a reasonable basis to search his home.
Coffman, in a statement to HuffPost, said the case was “a great example of an overreach executed by authority figures to silence someone with whom they disagree with or opposes their status quo,” and that it went against “the very rights in the constitution they made an oath to uphold.”
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