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Matt Damon and Ben Affleck are being sued by Miami constabulary officers complete their Netflix film, “The Rip.”
The crime thriller, which was released successful January, stars Damon and Affleck as constabulary officers successful the Miami-Dade Police Department narcotics unit. It’s inspired by nan existent communicative of nan 2016 Miami Lakes narcotics raid, which became the largest money seizure successful Miami-Dade history aft constabulary seized much than $24 cardinal successful cash.
Multiple constabulary officers progressive successful nan 2016 ambush are now suing Affleck and Damon done their accumulation company, Artists Equity, according to 7 News Miami. Officers declare nan movie unfairly damages nan estimation of nan officers who were progressive successful nan 2016 ambush done its antagonistic depiction of them.
Jonathan Santana, a lawman for nan Miami-Dade Sheriff’s Office, told nan outlet, “When you rip something, you’re stealing something. We ne'er stole a dollar.”
He besides said that he now gets teased aft nan film’s release, pinch group accusing him of stealing.
“Pretty overmuch saying, you know, really galore buckets of money did I steal?” he said.
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Santana’s attorney, Ignacio Alvarez, besides told nan outlet, “They portrayed constabulary officers arsenic dirty, they portrayed my clients arsenic dirty. Now their reputations are hurt.”
He added, “My clients are now wounded for nan remainder of their lives pinch everybody [perceiving] that they’re dirty.”
Page Six reached retired to Affleck and Damon for comment, but didn’t person an contiguous response.
This isn’t nan first clip “The Rip” — which besides stars Steven Yeun and Kyle Chandler — has ruffled feathers.
The movie was filmed chiefly successful Hilaleah, Florida, and Hialeah Mayor Bryan Calvo blasted nan movie successful January, claiming that it falsely portrayed nan metropolis arsenic unsafe.
“This movie is simply a slap successful nan look to our rule enforcement personnel,” he said, per 7 News Miami. “If you person ne'er been to Hialeah, if you unrecorded location other successful this state and you spot this film, I wouldn’t want to travel here, and that’s a problem.”
“The existent communicative that we saw depicted successful nan movie ‘Rip’ took spot successful Miami Lakes,” he added.
