Falled police bodycam videos: What people do wrong this week

Another week, another “Gotcha” video exposed. This time it is “Cop moves over the black judge and lives to regret” a piece of pseudo-documentary road drama that was viewed millions of times on YouTube and Tiktok (and elsewhere I'm sure). The video is part of a growing online video genre based on the documentation of the police officers' confrontation with the public, either about the body material carried with the police or through the Citizen Filmed film material. Some of these videos are real, but many of them are not.

Here is the video “Cop about the judge”:

The stories: bad improvisation in a parking lot in Florida

If you have a number of media literacy, it is easy to recognize this as a fake.

• The spectacle is the subcommunity theater level.

• The improved dialogue is ridiculous in the nose.

• I am pretty sure that judges do not wear judicial robes if they make errands.

• The taillight that the policeman is allegedly bankrupt is intact at the end of the video

This is only the surface. When you dive deeper, you will find out that the watermark for the bodycam is not correct and there is no city of Sunny Springs in Florida.

The cinematic universe of the rage: who does these videos at all?

The description of the channel The judge video comes from Bodycam, which is awarded, “in our channel we bring you real, unnecessary bodycam film material and offer insights into real situations. In some cases we can understand some elements to clarify key aspects of certain encounters.”

I can't find a video on this channel that contains real film material. Cop beats the arrogant prince in Ferrari and is suspended, black female lawyer against arrogant policeman, and the rest of these videos is wrong, unless all of these encounters have taken place in the parking lot of the same building.

Looking at a little deeper on YouTube, revealed a lot of these rage bait videos, from different creators, with different stories. We have brought police officers to cover FBI agents, police officers bother people to take their shoes in the park, and my personal favorite: Dumbe COP is on the plane with the false FBI agent. Take a look at this and don't try to laugh:

I actually like the seriousness of the creators of this video. It reminds me of the delusional incompetence of the B-movie king Ed Wood: God bless them, they tried. But that's So No aircraft cabin. And that's So No stewardess uniform. That means So No FBI agent. And that's So Not how people talk to each other on planet earth. The same fake plane was also used in this video.

The video “Cop vs. Judge” is basically a restart of a real video from the Florida, the Aramis Ayala, Florida's first elected prosecutor, is overwhelmed. If you compare you, it is obvious how real body cam film material looks compared to the wrong look, but also emphasizes why people are attracted to the real ones. We cannot see what happens to the real police officer beyond the current embarrassment. (Spoiler: nothing.)

Why are these counterfeits so successful?

I dug up in the sub-genre fake confrontation videos, and they seem to point out a collective desire for justice like the fake political confrontation videos that I posted last week. Cops are often bastards and we want you to concentrate with consequences if you do wrong. So there are many popular channels that are dedicated to videos that show exactly that. (Thank you very much for all the free entertainment on Body-Cam, Police of America!) But real police confrontations are generally darker than the fakes (maybe the bulls would not have handled this guy, but the guy seems to me to be drunk), and even if the police are clearly wrong, every “conclusion” lasts for years of wrangling. The fakes? Immediate justice!

Why people believe in fake cop videos

The successful formula for these videos is a policeman who pulls someone about it who is “higher” in the judicial hierarchy than a street police officer. In this way, the insulting party can confront instead of immediate karma instead of that it comes in a legal registration that no one will read. We want a shabby policeman to be held in full dress for a judge while we watch. We want to see the good ones winNow, and if it doesn't really happen, we will pull the wool over our own eyes. The real justice is usually not exciting, it is a slog through layers of moral relativism and triple paperwork, but fake justice blows hard. The biggest giveaway that these videos are fake is not the bad dialogue or the shady production design, but how true that they feel.

(Also: the stewardess uniform.)