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Viral video showing NYPD cop profiling Muslims is a hoax intended to smear police and stymie counter-terror efforts

Oct 21, 2014 4:44 pm By Robert Spencer

I watched this last night when Hussam Ayloush of Hamas-linked CAIR tweeted it out, and immediately thought that the whole thing had a stagy feel. And now it is confirmed: this is just another Muslim victimhood hoax — one of many. Hamas-linked CAIR and other Muslims have not hesitated to stoop even to fabricating “hate crimes,” including attacks on mosques. CAIR and other groups like it want and need hate crimes against Muslims, because they can use them for political points and as weapons to intimidate people into remaining silent about the jihad threat — and to intimidate the NYPD into dropping even the remaining vestiges of its counter-terror program.

“Viral NYPD Racial Profiling Video Was Staged,” The Smoking Gun, October 21, 2014:

OCTOBER 21–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.

The duo’s video operation–which is named “TrueStoryASA”–has racked up 60 million YouTube views and has more than 661,000 subscribers on the video-sharing site. While most of the pair’s videos involve pranks, sidewalk attempts at comedy and social commentary, or “Muslim-related stuff,” their latest clip seeks to latch onto an issue that has troubled many New Yorkers and tainted the NYPD.

Titled “Racial Profiling Experiment,” the 2:53 video (seen above) was uploaded Sunday to YouTube, where it has already been viewed in excess of 135,000 times. The clip has received coverage in several publications, including the British newspaper The Independent and The Huffington Post.

The video opens with Saleh and Akbar loudly arguing as they walk down a Queens street. The men, dressed in jeans and t-shirts, shove each other and appear on the verge of exchanging blows. While this is transpiring, a purported NYPD officer stands just feet away. With his arms folded, the impassive cop–whose face has been blurred–does nothing as the pair seems on the verge of fighting. The scene is apparently being filmed from a parked car by a friend of Saleh and Akbar.

The video then jumps ahead 20 minutes, when Saleh and Akbar are again seen arguing on the same sidewalk. This time, however, Saleh is wearing a headdress and a white robe. Akbar has on a keffiyeh scarf and an abaya, a long shirt. In their YouTube description of the video, the men describe these garments as their “cultural clothes.”

This time, the quarreling duo is immediately confronted by the cop, who asks, “What’s all the arguing about? Why are you dressed like this?” Motioning to their clothes, he demands, “What is this?”  In short order, the patrolman shoves Saleh up against the wall and directs him to put his hands up and “open your legs.” During the cursory search that follows, the cop feels something in Saleh’s pocket and yells, “What is this? What’s in your pocket?” When Saleh responds that it is his phone, the officer asks, “Is this a gun? Is that a knife?”

Oddly, the officer never bothers to remove the item to confirm that it is a phone and not a deadly weapon. Also, the cop does not appear concerned that Saleh’s friend is hovering directly behind him.

After Akbar is later subjected to a similarly perfunctory frisk, Saleh does the reveal. Removing the headdress, he tells the officer, “I’m the same guy from before. I came 20 minutes earlier, we had an argument, we hit each other, and you didn’t do anything.” Then, referring to the pair’s new clothes, Saleh added, “And now when we have this, you gonna come and do something to us?”

Confronted about his racial profiling and illegal searches, the cop appears befuddled and stripped of his bravado. He is left to warn a passerby–whose timing is impeccable–to “Take a walk before I arrest you for obstruction.”

The video is a marvelously tidy example of the NYPD’s supposedly wicked ways. At the clip’s end, Saleh and Akbar appear to explain, “What you just saw is what we always go through when we’re filming with our culture clothing on.” Saleh then claims that the pair had been out shooting another video when “police happen to, like, follow us and racial profile us. So we stopped filming that video and we decided to make this video for you guys. And it happened in one chance.”

The video ends with a request for viewers to give it a “thumbs up” vote on YouTube, as well as a pitch for new subscribers to the duo’s video channel.

The purported “Racial Profiling Experiment” undertaken by Saleh and Akbar was filmed on 126th Street in the Willets Point section of Queens, across from Citi Field, home to the New York Mets. The video was shot on a street where many of the businesses–tire outlets, auto repair firms, muffler shops–have been closed or relocated as part of a city redevelopment effort.

An NYPD source who last night viewed the clip at TSG’s request said that an officer from the local police precinct (the 110th in nearby Elmhurst) would not be standing patrol by himself on a deserted street in the middle of the day. As for the purported officer’s frisking technique, the NYPD veteran laughed, “That’s not how they teach you in the academy.” He also remarked that it was “inconceivable” that an officer would ask a Muslim man, “Why are you dressed like this?”

By obscuring the purported cop’s face, Saleh and Akbar have sought to avoid the immediate debunking of their clip, which has already garnered in excess of 30,000 “thumbs up” on YouTube and more than 5200 comments. In their supposed effort to expose racial profiling, the video’s creators have inexplicably–yet conveniently–provided cover for the rogue patrolman, now an electronically blurred boogeyman.

A second source, a recently retired NYPD detective who also watched the “profiling” video at TSG’s request, branded it an “obvious hoax” intended to “smear” police.

If that was the intent of Saleh and Akbar, they appear to have succeeded. According to The Huffington Post, the video provides a “small glimpse into the ugly world of racial profiling.” The news site later updated its piece to indicate that the clip’s authenticity could not be verified, and that NYPD officials are reviewing the video….

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  1. Bezelel says

    Oct 21, 2014 at 5:08 pm

    I was told that if you give an infinite number of monkeys violins eventually one would play music. The digital age has definitely dummied down cinematography. It embarrassing to the human race that this piece was liked by anyone. GONG!!!!

  2. Steffen Larsen says

    Oct 21, 2014 at 5:15 pm

    There’s a Poruguese anti-racism advert we soon began to see presented as the real thing.
    Same idea, same procedure: made to look like hidden camera.

  3. Wellington says

    Oct 21, 2014 at 5:27 pm

    Ah, it’s a fake. How fitting, since Islam from the seventh century to the present day is a fake.

    Unintentional irony here of the highest order. No doubt.

    • Huck Folder says

      Oct 21, 2014 at 11:30 pm

      It would be nice if it truly went viral with the full force of cair, huffpo, guardian behind it. Then expose it as a rank amateurish stunt to all the bleeding heart liberal enablers of mo.

      If it wasn’t released as a ‘tongue in cheek’ dregs movie sketch (like the mo movie last year), but purporting to be real (as some are claiming) then there should be charges laid of personation, slander, and yes – racism.

      The NYPD and the police union both have dogs in that fight, and if they’re not 100% dhimmi leftards, they should go for it.

      We know the excuse from the islamists, if caught with their pants down, would be that yeah, it happens, we just exaggerated slightly to make a point.

      What is really needed is retribution, the mobro take them behind the shack and beat the koran out of them (you thought I was going to say crap), for exposing them to EVEN MORE RIDICULE. Then there ought to be MASSIVE advertising of the scam, as a scam, paid for by cair and the duped media, $1,000,000 fine, and 1,000 hours meaningful community service, like washing beer bottles or cooking and serving bacon to poor people.

      • Jay Boo says

        Oct 22, 2014 at 12:28 am

        The reason they were so careless in making this amateurish video was probably because of the preponderance of leftist lapdog college professors and MSM panderers advertising their eager willingness to believe anything like this without question.

  4. 11B40 says

    Oct 21, 2014 at 5:36 pm

    Greetings:

    I’ve seen several cases on TV’s “Judge Judy” where police officers sue people who file false charges against them subsequent to the officers doing their duty. Maybe the Police Officers’ union should file a case and make a claim.

    • TNT says

      Oct 21, 2014 at 7:49 pm

      Yes that’s the best way to expose them with their fake propaganda jihad. the NYPD should sue! Evidence to add to the pile! Oh but wait the mayor is a Dhimmi! Don’t matter!

  5. Nicu says

    Oct 21, 2014 at 5:36 pm

    They are so pathetic : here they burn their own Mosques — and even their houses and the stupid Germans feel sorry for them and chain up with lights for the ” poor Muslims ” –showing they are not evil nazis .

    Muslims have no compassion for others – but they are pussies when it’s about them playing a victim ! Most whiny people ever — and the stupid good – doers believe them !

    • Jen says

      Oct 21, 2014 at 7:59 pm

      Yeah, that’s right. Burning their own mosque to show that they’re the victims and being targeted. All lies of course.

      Boo hoo Muslims.

      It should be embarrassing to them by now, but I guess they don’t have much shame.

      I can’t stop myself from being amused sometimes by how pathetically low these people stoop. Both in their actions and their words.

  6. kevin says

    Oct 21, 2014 at 5:51 pm

    these muhammadan seditionists need to be arrested for impersonating a police officer and youtube should close down their accounts for their criminal and hate mongering behavior, this cunts are abusing our laws to line their own pockets and to gain more islamic terrorists through their twisted lies

  7. Alarmed Pig Farmer says

    Oct 21, 2014 at 6:57 pm

    Step lightly on this. Islamophobia exists, I know that cuz *I* am an Islamophobe. Big time. Looking across the expanse of hate crimes against Moslems, perhaps the worst was when somebody burned a pile of Holy Ko-Rans and left them by the back door of a Mosque, in Virginia as I recall.

    When I read that, it made me shudder in revulsion.

    • pumbar says

      Oct 22, 2014 at 12:19 am

      Surely the worst one was when two Scots wrapped bacon around the door handles of a mosque? The whole human race stepped back in horror.

  8. Anon says

    Oct 21, 2014 at 7:18 pm

    It’s true there’s no compassion in Islam, only accusation and deception. There would be NO NEED and no requirement for them to blur out the face of a PUBLIC SERVANT, located in a PUBLIC SPACE for a youtube “public service message” video. The face-blurring was definitely for the purpose of obstructing identification of the fake cop, who by the way was yelling loud enough, with canned phrases, so the distant camera/mic could pick up the audio. In addition, earlier in the clip, two people pushing and shoving each other according to the definition of assault, “fear of being pushed, hit or shoved”, in front of a police officer, would be grounds to be detained, questioned, and possibly arrested, yet no action occurred at that point.

  9. Ima Freeman says

    Oct 21, 2014 at 7:44 pm

    One word: Taqquiya

    That’s what they do to survive. Look at the lambasting Christianity and Judaism have taken over the centuries, yet they continue to thrive.

    Islam, however, needs lies and deceipt to further its nefarious goals. God, how I despise this so-called religion and its ignorant adherents (and their lapdogs)!

    Ima

  10. Jen says

    Oct 21, 2014 at 7:50 pm

    Muslims getting desperate, huh. Anything to create a distraction or excuse.

    No no nonono WE ARE the victims. Please. Everyone.
    This is about what everyone is doing to us. Not what we’re doing to everyone else.

    Pathetic.

  11. Rob says

    Oct 21, 2014 at 8:17 pm

    Would a lone cop frisking a suspect and actually assaulting him with a kick, turn his back on the suspect’s companion?
    Now I’ve a mint condition Brooklyn Bridge going cheap.

    • Beagle says

      Oct 21, 2014 at 8:30 pm

      Of course not. He’d call for back up and conduct a felony arrest which involves the suspects lying on the ground and cuffs behind the back. The photo at the top proves the entire video is fake. No cop would let the other suspect lurk nearby. The cop would talk to them after he got both of them detained, restrained, and searched for weapons.

      Cop School 101 rule violation depicted: 100% fake. They learn about fighting couples and the beaten woman suddenly shooting when an arrest is attempted on the man. That, as depicted, would never happen.

  12. Beagle says

    Oct 21, 2014 at 8:49 pm

    The more I watch that video the more fake it appears to be. I guess I should not be shocked people fall for obvious fakery, but that is extremely obvious. The ‘cop’s’ acting is terrible, as is theirs.

    Everything the cop does lacks verisimilitude for a cop by himself approaching two unknown subjects carrying who knows what.

  13. Beagle says

    Oct 21, 2014 at 8:57 pm

    Notice how the first guy against the wall actually walks towards the wall, not “away” as the so-called cop claims? Getting ahead of the scripted action is more than a bit of a tell.

    Acting and blocking bad enough for a “Cut!”

  14. Lee says

    Oct 21, 2014 at 9:42 pm

    The example of Muhammad and his preaching of lying to achieve political ends is something understood and acted on by Muslims. Here’s another prime example – the Grand Mufti of Australia filmed vandalizing his own mosque and then reporting it to police – see: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6tRIee5H_vY

    • Jen says

      Oct 21, 2014 at 9:53 pm

      Good link, thanks.

    • Jen says

      Oct 21, 2014 at 9:55 pm

      “Busted by his own security camera” HAHA!

      What an idiot…..

  15. Jen says

    Oct 21, 2014 at 9:51 pm

    Sorry, which race is Islam again? This video wasn’t intended to be about Arabs and how they dress.

    It’s easier for these stealth jihadists to attach themselves to the idea of “racial profiling” when they push their propaganda because they know there is already a certain amount of sympathy in the community for individuals that are racially profiled. This allows them to get extra support in their camp from anyone, including non-Muslims, who might be sympathetic to the cause of anti-racial profiling.

    Sneaky, Muslims. Sneaky.

    It must be hard not having the truth on your side, eh Muslims?

    The rest of the non-Muslim world doesn’t need to worry about making fake videos. The treatment of non-Muslims by Muslims is real and there is plenty of video, photos, and personal accounts in existence to show this.

    • Ima Freeman says

      Oct 21, 2014 at 10:12 pm

      Jen,

      I like your vitriol! I like everything you said. Cheers!

      Ima

    • Lee says

      Oct 22, 2014 at 10:43 pm

      “which race is Islam again?” – good point. The crude manipulation by the political and media elites of public discussion about Islam, where it is pretended that followers of Jihad ideology are a race, and further, that to criticize Jihadism can only mean you’re mentally diseased with a phobia, is a disgrace. And we’ve had 13 years of it – and counting!

      An interesting parallel is that Stalin put dissidents into mental asylums, and Mao put them into re-education camps. Pretending those who disagree are mentally ill or criminally immoral is apparently the preferred totalitarian way of shutting down criticism, because they never have to actually defend their indefensible position.

  16. NikNik says

    Oct 21, 2014 at 10:51 pm

    Besides the discrepancies that the NYPD source pointed out, this video is also fake because muslims ALWAYS aggravate in groups. Never will they aggravate someone one-on-one unless the muslim has a significant and unfair advantage of some sort. Such advantage I didn’t see in this video.

  17. Salah says

    Oct 21, 2014 at 11:40 pm

    The above video is a hoax, this one is not.
    http://crossmuslims.blogspot.ca/2014/01/egyptian-muslims-tear-up-quran.html

  18. Buraq says

    Oct 22, 2014 at 12:05 am

    Prosecute the clowns for attempting to undermine public confidence in a government institution whose job it is to protect the public from Islamic jihad.

  19. Karl S. says

    Oct 22, 2014 at 12:11 am

    The terrible acting on all sides was actually quite a treat to watch; had a few laughs. Really quite funny! Also, if their goal was for this to be real, why would the officer’s face be blurred? The NYPD–or any other law enforcement agency in a similar situation–would investigate a matter like this immediately.

  20. Billie-Bob says

    Oct 22, 2014 at 2:50 am

    I’ve experienced the same thing. I contacted Sitelock and they would tell me nothing, telling me to contact the site owners but I have no email address for them. (Anyone?)
    I’m not sure if this is action by Sitelock which is adverse to the site (censorship) or is rather is the result of the site coming under DOS attacks from hackers. I would appreciate also any further information.

  21. Tim says

    Oct 22, 2014 at 3:43 am

    Fake? No kidding. The staged fight right in front of Mohammed-the-cop should be a giveaway even to a five year old. One of Muslim intentions in America is mass-propaganda to turn Americans against their own government. This has been laid out in their plans. Hundreds of millions are donated from Saudis and Qataris mainly, to pay University students to bombard forums, blogs and media comment pages with propaganda. You may have seen all the 9/11 conspiracy theories? I watched that happen and it began with the Arabs.
    Muslims love to create conflict wherever they are. They believe that by creating tensions and conflict they get a foot in the door.

  22. Nan says

    Oct 22, 2014 at 10:08 am

    My question is: Is the policeman part of the play just for the sake of the video?

  23. Anushirvan says

    Oct 22, 2014 at 10:16 am

    “An NYPD source who last night viewed the clip at TSG’s request said that an officer from the local police precinct (the 110th in nearby Elmhurst) would not be standing patrol by himself on a deserted street in the middle of the day.”

    I thought as much when I saw the first few seconds of this video. A police officer standing on a corner with apparently nothing else to do than just stand there ? Not on your nelly ! He should be driving in a patrol car, that is, if he were a genuine police officer. Plus, two guys not having seen this police officer standing there and having a fight right in front of his eyes ? Too convenient.

    Which is why I didn’t bother with the rest of this video, either.

  24. Anushirvan says

    Oct 22, 2014 at 10:26 am

    No luck. I’ve tried visiting the BNI site a few times, too. Easy to access from my speed dial, normally. But alas, impossible in the last couple of hours, or so !

    I’ve seen Sitelock messages before on other sites on the blogroll, every once in while. You never really know what’s cooking when such a thing occurs.

    • Anushirvan says

      Oct 22, 2014 at 10:28 am

      “You are posting comments too quickly. Slow down.”

      Wow ! WordPress thinks I am a tad too fast for their liking.

      😀

  25. gp says

    Oct 22, 2014 at 9:47 pm

    muslims should be profiled.

    Every mosque in the West should be considered openly hostile and nothing more than a jihadist recruiting center and a huge Trojan Horse. Every muslim is a potential Manchurian Candidate.

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