{"id":267653,"date":"2026-05-12T05:59:49","date_gmt":"2026-05-12T05:59:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/267653\/"},"modified":"2026-05-12T05:59:49","modified_gmt":"2026-05-12T05:59:49","slug":"ben-affleck-matt-damon-sued-for-the-rip-by-miami-police-officers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/267653\/","title":{"rendered":"Ben Affleck, Matt Damon Sued for ‘The Rip’ by Miami Police Officers"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tTwo law enforcement officers in the Miami-Dade Sheriff\u2019s Office, Jason Smith and Jonathan Santana, have filed a lawsuit against Ben Affleck<\/a> and Matt Damon<\/a>\u2018s production company Artists Equity over \u201cThe Rip<\/a>,\u201d the Netflix crime drama directed by Joe Carnahan that launched on the streamer in January. <\/p>\n

\n\tAs reported by Entertainment Weekly<\/a>: \u201cSmith and Santana allege the characters played by Affleck and Damon in the movie have caused them \u2018substantial harm to their personal and professional reputations\u2019 because the movie and its advertisements \u2018imply misconduct, poor judgment and unethical behavior in connection with a real law enforcement operation.’\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tVariety has reached out to a representative for Artists Equity for comment. <\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cThe Rip\u201d stars Damon and Affleck as lieutenant Dane Dumars and detective sergeant J.D. Byrne, respectively, two law enforcement officers in the Miami-Dade Police Department who discover corruption in their ranks linked to $20 million of cartel cash. The cast also featured Steven Yeun, Teyana Taylor, Sasha Calle and Kyle Chandler.<\/p>\n

\n\tSmith and Santana\u2019s lawsuit claims a real-life case from June 2016 in which they seized more than $21 million was inspiration for the movie, which opens with the text that it was \u201cinspired by true events.\u201d Smith and Santana are not named in the movie. The lawsuit says \u201cthe film\u2019s use of unique, non-generic details of the June 29, 2016, investigation, combined with its Miami-Dade setting and portrayal of a narcotics team, creates a reasonable inference that the officers depicted are Plaintiffs.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tIn the movie, Affleck and Damon\u2019s law enforcement characters bend the rules such as in one scene where Affleck\u2019s character kills a DEA agent. Per EW<\/a>: \u201cThe plaintiffs\u2019 attorneys allege that the defendants responded to their inquiry after the film was released in January 2026 by saying that the \u2018concerns are unfounded because the film did not expressly name Sergeant Smith and there was no implication that the Plaintiffs engaged in any misconduct in the film.’\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tLawyers for Smith and Santana are asking for \u201ca public retraction and correction,\u201d including \u201cthe addition of a prominent disclaimer\u201d to the movie. The two officers are seeking \u201ccompensatory damages, punitive damages and attorney fees,\u201d per Entertainment Weekly.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Two law enforcement officers in the Miami-Dade Sheriff\u2019s Office, Jason Smith and Jonathan Santana, have filed a lawsuit…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":267654,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[64019,64020,123,125,124,66604],"class_list":["post-267653","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-miami","tag-ben-affleck","tag-matt-damon","tag-miami","tag-miami-headlines","tag-miami-news","tag-the-rip"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/267653","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=267653"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/267653\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/267654"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=267653"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=267653"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=267653"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}