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Matt Damon, Ben Affleck sued by Miami police for depicting them as ‘dirty’ in The Rip
(www.the-independent.com)
this post was submitted on 10 May 2026
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Discovery is gonna be hilarious.
If some random Redditors are to be believed the film actually paints the police in a semi positive light. There are a few bad cops but supposedly at the end most of the cops are shown to be acting with integrity.
Exactly, that's what made it so unbelievable and unrealistic.
Okay.
But the thing about defamation lawsuits is that the plaintiff (Miami PD) has to show and demonstrate that it’s in fact defamation. Mostly that comes down to lying about it and causing reputational harm.
The defendants (or rather a team if interns owned by their lawyers,) gets to go into the the plaintiffs records to discredit those claims.
In other words, the lawyers will get an all-access pass to Miami PD’s normally confidential files detailing extensive corruption. Because let’s be honest, there’s corruption there.
They’ll drop it before it gets to discovery.
Or they will just not comply with discovery, and also demand the case be sealed. As is tradition lately.