Does a video on TikTok show "Bikers on the way to California to back ICE agents" in June of 2025? No, that's not true: The video was first posted to TikTok in November 2022 -- almost three years before protesters in Los Angeles took to the streets to block aggressive ICE immigration raids. The video's original poster was documenting bikers at a charity event in Pennsylvania, which Lead Stories confirmed in a September of 2024 fact check, when we found the video being used to falsely say bikers were mobilizing to fight Venezuelan gangs in Colorado.
The video appeared in a June 12, 2025 TikTok on the @conservative_gator account (archived here) with the following on-screen caption: "On the way to California to back Ice Agents .." It continued:
and deport the criminals illegals
Lets go MAGA
This is what the post looked like on TikTok at the time of writing:
(Source: TikTok screenshot taken by Lead Stories.)
When the clip was used to claim bikers were headed west to fight Venezuelan gangsters, Lead Stories conducted a Google image search for "5PW57," the license plate number shown at the beginning of the clip. That led to this September 2024 TikTok video (archived here) in which a user matches details to a 2022 video. On June 12, 2025, when Lead Stories searched the TikTok account credited with posting the video November 5, 2022 (archived here), it carried a text overlay about Republicans preparing to vote. Here is how that post appeared at the time of writing:
(Source: TikTok screenshot taken by Lead Stories.)
The same account that posted the video above also published the same video on September 1, 2024, (archived here) with a different text overlay that read:
This is the original video of the Tucker Toy Run Charity Event, not the Hells Angels heading to Aurora Co. But I do wish it was true.
Lead Stories has collected other fact checks of bogus re-captioning of biker videos here.
