Did a widely-shared video show an authentic gas station encounter between a "racist cop" and a Black "Navy Seal"? No, that's not true: The video originated on a Facebook page that publishes dramatic, scripted public disputes. The individuals in the footage were actors.
The video was presented as authentic in a May 10, 2025, post on TikTok (archived here). Embedded in the video was the text title:
Racist cop didn't know I was a navy seal and I arrested him
The video can be viewed below:
@true_crimetime#truecrimetime#copsoftiktok#fyp#copcam#entertainment#copstop#learnontiktok♬ original sound - true_crimetime
In reality, this was not an authentic record of a real incident, and the individuals in the video were actors, not a police officer or a Navy Seal.
The original video was published on Facebook on April 21, 2025, and can be viewed below:
That Facebook page, "Law Talk", regularly publishes such fake, dramatic, scripted scenes, and Lead Stories has debunked several of them in the past.
