Did a widely-shared video show real police officers handcuffing a Black man in a restaurant who turned out to be an undercover FBI agent? 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 11, 2025 (archived here), with the caption
Cops bother undercover FBI agent and get fired
It can be watched below:
In reality, those were actors and not police officers or FBI agents, and the location was a film set, not a real restaurant.
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 bearded police officer in the June 11 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)
Indeed, the furniture, layout and artwork on the walls of the fake restaurant in the June 11 match up exactly with a set labelled "Diner" on the website of Network Media, as shown below:
