Does a viral clip authentically show law enforcement bodycam footage capturing officers demanding that an "army colonel" show his ID while at a clothing store? No, that's not true: The video previously appeared on a page on Facebook associated with a privately owned entity, not any law enforcement agency. It published multiple clips imitating authentic body-cam footage but most of the clips showed the same date in 2023 while featuring the similarly themed-scripts.
The story appeared in a video (archived here) published on TikTok on May 7, 2025, under the caption:
Racist police officers approached a man but did not know he was an army colonel.
This is what the post looked like on TikTok at the time of writing:
(Source: TikTok screenshot by Lead Stories)
A variation of the same scene featuring the same people in the same settings was previously posted (archived here) on Facebook on April 21, 2025:
(Source: Facebook screenshot by Lead Stories)
The page's description (archived here) said that it was affiliated with a privately owned entity that published, according to its own words, "law demonstrations".
Many videos on the page displayed the same date (April 16, 2023) coupled with an identical unique identifier (X81079338). At least two of those videos were recorded at the same location, as seen here (archived here) and here (archived here) and offered a variation of the same script:
(Source: Facebook screenshot by Lead Stories)
(Source: Facebook screenshot by Lead Stories)
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Lead Stories previously wrote about other staged videos mistaken by social media users for authentic bodycam police footage. Those stories can be found here, here, here and here.
