according to 7 News Miami<\/a>. Officers claim the film unfairly damages the reputation of the officers who were involved in the 2016 raid through its negative depiction of them.<\/p>\nBen Affleck and Matt Damon are being sued through their production company, Artists Equity, over their Netflix crime thriller, \u201cThe Rip.\u201d Warrick Page\/Netflix<\/p>\n
\u201cThe Rip\u201d is inspired by the true story of the 2016 Miami Lakes narcotics raid, when police seized more than $24 million in cash. Claire Folger\/Netflix<\/p>\n
Jonathan Santana, a deputy for the Miami-Dade Sheriff\u2019s Office, told the outlet, \u201cWhen you rip something, you\u2019re stealing something. We never stole a dollar.\u201d<\/p>\n
He also said that he now gets teased after the film\u2019s release, with people accusing him of stealing.<\/p>\n
\u201cPretty much saying, you know, how many buckets of money did I steal?\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
Some Miami police officers involved in the 2016 raid are now suing, claiming the film damaged their reputations by portraying them as crooked cops. Claire Folger\/Netflix<\/p>\n
Attorney Ignacio Alvarez said, \u201cThey portrayed police officers as dirty, they portrayed my clients as dirty. Now their reputations are hurt.\u201d Warrick Page\/Netflix<\/p>\n
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Santana\u2019s attorney, Ignacio Alvarez, also told the outlet, \u201cThey portrayed police officers as dirty, they portrayed my clients as dirty. Now their reputations are hurt.\u201d<\/p>\n
He added, \u201cMy clients are now hurt for the rest of their lives with everybody [perceiving] that they\u2019re dirty.\u201d<\/p>\n
Page Six reached out to Affleck and Damon for comment, but didn\u2019t receive an immediate response.<\/p>\n
This isn\u2019t the first time \u201cThe Rip\u201d \u2014 which also stars Steven Yeun and Kyle Chandler \u2014 has ruffled feathers.<\/p>\n
Damon and Affleck, seen here at the film\u2019s premiere in January, have yet to respond publicly to the lawsuit, Getty Images for Netflix<\/p>\n
The film also stars Steven Yeun and Kyle Chandler. Claire Folger\/Netflix<\/p>\n
The movie was filmed primarily in Hilaleah, Florida, and Hialeah Mayor Bryan Calvo blasted the film in January, claiming that it falsely portrayed the city as unsafe.<\/p>\n
\u201cThis movie is a slap in the face to our law enforcement personnel,\u201d he said, per 7 News Miami<\/a>. \u201cIf you have never been to Hialeah, if you live somewhere else in this country and you see this film, I wouldn\u2019t want to come here, and that\u2019s a problem.\u201d<\/p>\n\u201cThe real story that we saw depicted in the movie \u2018Rip\u2019 took place in Miami Lakes,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Matt Damon and Ben Affleck are being sued by Miami police officers over their Netflix film, \u201cThe Rip.\u201d…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":265870,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[64019,38254,9633,104,64020,123,125,124,5077,11496,132],"class_list":["post-265869","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-miami","tag-ben-affleck","tag-celebrity-lawsuits","tag-celebrity-news","tag-entertainment","tag-matt-damon","tag-miami","tag-miami-headlines","tag-miami-news","tag-movies","tag-netflix","tag-police"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/265869","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=265869"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/265869\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/265870"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=265869"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=265869"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=265869"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}