Does an authentic courtroom video show the trial of a wheelchair-using man who is startled by a bailiff in a monster mask, causing him to leap to his feet after claiming he can't walk? No, that's not true: The video is a re-post of a 2021 video by Jibrizy Taylor, a street illusionist who produced "Life Lessons" skits for social media traffic. The clickbait TikTok video was one of several 2025 remakes of the skit.
The video appeared in a July 28, 2025 X.com post (archived here) by the @josh_uglyasf account. It was captioned:
He was caught doing a grand theft auto but he claimed and insisted he's a cripple until this happened
This is what the post looked like on X at the time this fact check was written:
(Source: Lead Stories screenshot of X.com post by x.com/josh_uglyasf.)
The video posted to X in 2025 is identical to a 2021 skit on the Facebook page of Jibrizy Taylor, a Chicago street illusionist who created "Life Lessons" films to generate traffic to his social media accounts. On-screen captions have been added to the reposted versions.
But the scene is identical: Here's a screenshot of the opening footage of the video posted to the Jibrizy Facebook page in 2021 (archived here):
(Source: Lead Stories screenshot of Facebook post on jibrizy page.)
The 2021 version ran with a disclaimer that described Jibrizy videos as "Inspiration Film Directed and Produced by Jibrizy." That page description looked like this:
(Source: Lead Stories screenshot of Facebook Jibrizy account page transparency information.)
