Did a widely-shared video show a real nurse and police officers falsely accusing a Black man of being drunk, and calling him "Drunky McDrunk Pants? 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 10, 2025 (archived here), with the caption "Man proves cops wrong after being wrongful accused" and shows a nurse and police officer in a hospital accusing a Black patient of being drunk and "belligerent", and insisting he take a breathalyzer test before receiving treatment.
The video can be watched below:
Parts of the video were reposted in a June 25 post on X which garnered nearly seven million views in just two days.
In reality, those were actors and not police officers or nurses or patients, and the location was a film set, not a real hospital.
The page that posted the video, Law Talk / True Crime, routinely publishes similar sketches that feature the same actors. For example, the woman who plays the nurse in the June 10 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: Network Media screenshot)
Indeed, the furniture, layout and artwork on the walls of the fake examination room, shown in the background in the June 10 video match up exactly with a set labelled "Doctors Office" on the website of Network Media, as shown below:
(Source: Facebook and Network Media screenshots)
