Does a viral clip authentically document a scene showing a Black FBI agent being stopped by a police officer while driving a car? No, that's not true: The footage originated from a site that publishes reenactments, according to its own disclaimer. That page, weeks old as of April 10, 2025, is not a government website.
The claim appeared in a post (archived here) published on X on April 9, 2025. It opened:
This Cop Pulled Over an FBI Agent 😳
This is what the post looked like on X at the time of writing:
(Source: X screenshot by Lead Stories)
The 1-minute 50-second clip with blurred faces purported to show a real-life encounter of a Black driver who said he was an FBI agent and a police officer who pulled him over. The video, however, was not authentic body-cam footage.
The clip was a short version of a 6-minute video originally uploaded on YouTube on March 4, 2025, by a channel whose description (archived here), in part, read:
...we may reenact some elements to clarify key aspects of certain encounters.
According to the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) lookup tool, the one-page website claiming ownership of the channel (archived here) was only created on March 15, 2025. It is not a government website, and it showed a disclaimer (archived here):
PLEASE NOTE: The content on Body Cam Declassified is created and produced content, not actual bodycam footage from official sources. This is a critical legal distinction.
The website lacked an "About" section, and, according to two AI detectors (GPTZero and Quillbot.com), the text displayed on its single page was likely generated by Artificial Intelligence:
(Source: GPTZero screenshot by Lead Stories)
(Source: Quillbot screenshot by Lead Stories)
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