Two YouTube pranksters have staged a small experiment- in one case they wore western clothes and argued in front of policeman who said nothing. In the other, they did the same but in Muslim clothes and were stopped and frisked by the same officer.
The authors of the video, YouTube stars Adam Saleh and Sheiikh Akbar, who are known for making fun prank videos, shot their latest footage in New York. It is called Racial Profiling Experiment and consists of two clips which according to them were shot with an+ interval of about 20 minutes.
On one video Saleh and Akbar, dressed in western clothes and speaking with American accent, pass by a police officer, arguing. They started pushing each other directly in front of the officer. He saw them but said nothing, pretending not to see them.
Saleh and Akbar repeated the same argument 20 minutes later. The only difference was that they wore what might be described as “cultural clothes” and spoke with a foreign accent.
But the officer’s reaction was quite different. He instantly stopped them as soon as Saleh, wearing a headdress, poked Akbar in the chest.
“What is the argument about? Why are you dressed like this?” asked the policeman, pointing at their traditional Muslim robes.
When the pair said “Nothing serious” and tried to move on, he said: “Don’t walk from me! I’m an officer! Why are you walking away when I am talking to you?”
Then the officer shoved them both against the wall, kicking one of them in process, ordering them to put their hands up. He started searching them asking “What’s in your pocket? Is this a gun? A knife?”
It turned out to be just a mobile phone.
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rich_magnetThis was such an extreme reaction I have to wonder if this cop was a plant. It seems either fake, or a parody of classic police goonery.
newtboyI think he clearly showed his hand when he screamed "Why are you dressed like this?!" angrily.
One more cop that needs "retraining". It makes me wonder if there was ever training in the first place, seeing how many officers are desperately in need of "retraining", if there was, it needs a new instructor, or a harder test to pass, as the 'trained' don't display their training far too often.
EDIT: D'oh! Total fake out. Not for real. Put this on 'TRUTV', the cable channel for fake reality.
speechlesssays...From the YT description:
"This video is a Dramatization of previous events that occurred"
Would you like to know more?
http://www.thesmokinggun.com/documents/NYPD-racial-profiling-hoax-video-675432
"In a cynical and duplicitous attempt to capitalize on New York City’s documented racial profiling problems, a pair of bloggers have created a video purporting to show an NYPD officer stopping and frisking a pair of Muslim men for the crime of wearing traditional Islamic garments.
But the viral video is a sham, a staged production aimed to go viral and pile up views and YouTube channel subscriptions for its young creators, Brooklynites Adam Saleh and Sheikh Akbar, who get a piece of the revenue generated by ads that run before their videos play."
newtboy*debunked and *lies
I hate that. Thanks 'reality TV' for making this the norm. Damn liars.
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song77FAKE....
enochyeah,thanks to @speechless for bringing this to my attention.while i knew it was a re-enactment i didnt feel it detracted from the very real problems with racial profiling.
it appears i should have taken the 5 minutes to uncover a very cynical and ultimately counter-productive attempt by these two opportunists to undermine some very real social issues.
so the egg is on my face and i apologize to all for not doing my due diligence.
ill keep the video but im changing the title.
speechlesssays...Well in all fairness to enoch, the original YT description did not mention anything about it being a re-enactment or dramatization. It was presented as being a real video and was reported on several major sites as if it were real. It was only after they got busted did they fess up and change the YT description to "dramatization".
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