A video showing police personnel gunning down an individual is going viral on social media platforms with users identifying the latter as one 'Mohammad Altamish'.
What have users said?: An X (formerly Twitter) premium user shared the clip with a caption that said, "A radical Islamist Mohammad Altamish in America was threatening with a knife. American police said to throw the knife and surrender. Mohammad Altamish did not agree. Then police did what a police officer should do with terrorists."
The viral post had gained nearly 10 thousand views on the platform. More archives of similar claims can be found here, here, and here.
What are the facts?: The viral claim is false. The video is actually from 8 November 2022, when a man named Jesus Crosby was shot by the Albuquerque Police Department (APD) in the United States.
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How did we find that out?: A Google Lens search on the keyframes of the viral clip directed us to a report published by the Albuquerque Journal that carried a similar visual.
It said that Albuquerque Police Department (APD) gunned down a man named Jesus Crosby in November 2022 in the parking lot of the department's headquarters.
The report mentioned that Crosby was carrying nail clippers with the file extended, which was mistaken for a knife by the officers. When the man stepped forward, he was shot by two officers.
Crosby reportedly refused to surrender and was shouting obscenities.
What did the department say?: As per the press...
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