Does a video of a police pursuit of a person in a pickle costume show a real-life scene? No, that's not true: The pickle video bears the watermark of Sora, an app from Open AI that generates videos from text prompts. No news organizations reported that such a pursuit took place.
The claim appeared in a post (archived here) published on TikTok on October 7, 2025. It opened:
This is what it looked like on TikTok at the time of writing:
(Image source: Lead Stories screenshot of post at tiktok.com/@policebodycam6741)
The post shared a 10-second video in which a uniformed officer appeared to be pursuing a person dressed as a pickle. Some claimed (archived here) on social media that the scene was an immigration raid involving the police and led by ICE, but none of that was true.
Throughout the duration of the original clip, the logo of Sora -- an AI video creation tool (archived here) -- was visible in a watermark on the top part of the screen and on the right.
A search across news resources on Google did not show (archived here) any reports describing the scene as real.
The appearance of the character trying to escape from law enforcement in the video reviewed in this fact check seems to have been inspired by the third episode of the third season of the "Rick and Morty" cartoon (archived here) in which one of the main characters, Rick, turns himself into a pickle (archived here).
