Fact Check: Staged Video Shows Cop Attempting To Arrest Black Judge In Courtroom -- Actors On A Set

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  • by: Maarten Schenk
Fact Check: Staged Video Shows Cop Attempting To Arrest Black Judge In Courtroom -- Actors On A Set Sketch

Does a viral video really show a cop on his first day on the job trying to remove a black man from a courtroom until it turns out he is the judge? No, that's not true: The video appeared on a Facebook page associated with a company that rents out sets where influencers can film videos. The "courtroom" is one of the sets listed on their website.

The video originally appeared in a Facebook post (archived here) where it was published by a page named Law Talk on June 24, 2025 under the title "Cops looks dumb trying to stop judge from doing his job". It was later reuploaded to several other social media websites. The video opened with a narration that said:

Watch as a rookie cop tries to drag a young man out of public court records demanding ID and threatening arrest. But when the man drops the truth, he's the judge, under the First Amendment and state open records laws the cop has no authority here. What happens next is pure courtroom karma.

This is the post in question:

This is what the post looked like on Facebook at the time of writing:

Facebook screenshot

(Source: Facebook screenshot taken on Wed Jul 9 10:02:41 2025 UTC)

The description of Law Talk (archived here) 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:

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(Source: NetworkMedia.com screenshot by Lead Stories)

One of the sets in question is the very courtroom set (archived here) the sketch takes place in:

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(Image source: collage of Network Media courtroom set photo and Law Talk video screenshot created by Lead Stories)

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  Maarten Schenk

Maarten Schenk is the co-founder and COO/CTO of Lead Stories and an expert on fake news and hoax websites. He likes to go beyond just debunking trending fake news stories and is endlessly fascinated by the dazzling variety of psychological and technical tricks used by the people and networks who intentionally spread made-up things on the internet.

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