Did a widely-shared video show a Black undercover FBI agent "schooling" a police officer in a supermarket after the officer stopped and questioned him at the checkout? No, that's not true: The people in the video were simply acting out a scripted scenario. The page that posted the sketch routinely publishes similar scripted scenarios, and is affiliated with Network Media, a company that rents out film sets to various online "content producers".
The video was posted to Facebook on June 20, 2025 (archived here), with the caption "undercover FBI agent school cop on law" and shows a police officer stopping a Black man at a supermarket checkout, telling him he partially matches the description of a suspect, and asking him to show his ID. The man refuses, and then shows what appears to be an FBI badge, causing the police officer to apologize.
The video can be watched below:
Parts of the video were reposted in a June 21 post on TikTok which garnered 15 million views in just a few days.
In reality, those were actors and not police officers or FBI agents, and the location was a film set, not a real supermarket.
The page that posted the video, Law Talk / True Crime, routinely publishes similar sketches that feature the same actors. For example, the man who plays the long-haired checkout assistant in the June 20 video has appeared in earlier Law Talk / True Crime scenes.
Lead Stories has debunked earlier fake Law Talk / True Crime videos.
Finally, the description of Law Talk / True Crime states that the page is run by "JS HOLDINGS 1 NM LLC", a company whose subsidiary, Network Media, rents out film sets to "content producers" who publish similar scripted scenes:
(Source: NetworkMedia.com screenshot by Lead Stories)
