A video from the US is falsely shared as footage of a Muslim man being shot by police in Britain for attempting a rape. - FACTLY
Sai Krishna Muthyanolla
January 29, 2024
Bodycam footage of a police officer firing gunshots at a man wielding a knife is doing the rounds on social media with a claim that the man is a Muslim, and this incident took place in Britain when he tried to sexually assault a woman. Let’s verify this claim through this article.
Claim: Visulas show an officer gunning down a Muslim man trying to rape a woman in Britain.
Fact: The video is of an old incident from August 2022 that happened in Baltimore City, USA. A man named Tyree Moorehead was fatally shot by a police officer when he was assaulting a woman while holding a knife. There is no credible information online to suggest that Tyree Moorehead was a Muslim. Hence, the claim made in the post is False.
To check the veracity of the viral claim, we performed a reverse image search on a few of the viral video’s keyframes. This search led us to a few news reports (here, here, and here) from August 2022 about the incident related to the viral video.
Reportedly, the video shows body cam footage of a police officer named Zachary Rutherford of the Baltimore Police Department. The visuals show him firing gunshots at a man named Tyree Moorehead, who was assaulting a woman with a knife in his hand.
This incident happened in Baltimore City, USA. Tyree Moorehead, reportedly a ‘no shoot zones’ activist, succumbed to his injuries. None of the news reports identified him as a Muslim, contradicting the viral claim.
To sum up, an old video of a man getting shot by a police officer for attacking a woman is being shared with a false narrative that the man is a Muslim and the incident took place in Britain.