Does a video shared on social media authentically document the arrest of a homeowner association's enforcement head? No, that's not true: The clip was staged. Its original, longer version features a logo of a nonexistent police unit and a fake body camera timestamp whose format doesn't match that on the manufacturer's website.
The claim appeared in a video (archived here) published on TikTok on July 27, 2025, under the title:
Head of HOA Enforcement Gets Arrested #cops
This is what the post looked like on TikTok at the time of writing:
(Image source: screenshot of the cops.nabi.sos account on TikTok.com)
The format of what seemed to be the Axon Enterprise timestamp in the top right corner of the frame wasn't the same as in demo videos on the company's website.
Here is a close-up of it from the clip on TikTok:
(Image source: screenshot of the cops.nabi.sos account on TikTok.com)
Real timestamps in the authentic Axon Body 4 camera footage display struck-through zeroes, as seen on the manufacturer's website:
(Image source: screenshot of Axon.com)
The video reviewed in this fact check originated from the Bodycam Declassified channel on YouTube. That channel's self-description (archived here) declares some videos it publishes are not real police footage:
(Image source: screenshot of the BodycamDeclassified account on YouTube)
The original, longer version of the recording briefly showed a logo of "Coral Palms Police". That city couldn't be found on Google Maps: Coral Palms was the location of Brooklyn Nine-Nine episodes set in Florida (archived here).
(Image source: screenshot of the BodycamDeclassified account on YouTube)
The channel on YouTube where the video was initially published was mentioned on the website of the same name: bodycamdeclassified.com (archived here). It showed a further disclaimer:
PLEASE NOTE: The content on Body Cam Declassified is created and produced content, not actual bodycam footage from official sources. This is a critical legal distinction:
- While actual government-produced bodycam footage may have different copyright considerations and may be subject to broader fair use provisions in some contexts, our content is NOT actual bodycam footage.
- Our videos represent original creative works that we script, film, edit, and produce ourselves.
- As privately created content (not government-produced public records), our videos are fully protected by copyright law and are NOT subject to the same fair use allowances that might apply to actual police bodycam footage.
- The distinction means our content receives full copyright protection as creative works, similar to any other professionally produced video content.
Attempts to justify unauthorized use of our content by claiming it is 'public record footage' or 'government-created content' are legally incorrect and will be treated as willful copyright infringement.
Lead Stories previously documented many other similar cases when social media users mistook videos from the same source for authentic police footage.
