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India Today Fact Check found that the video is more than three years old, from protests surrounding the 2020 police killing of George Floyd in the US.
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India Today Fact Check
This 2020 video from Chicago shows looting during protests following the police killing of George Floyd.
Black Friday, the Friday after Thanksgiving in the United States that traditionally marks the start of the Christmas shopping season, has over the years witnessed violence between shoppers. A video has now emerged on social media that shows a group of black men and women looting a Nike store. Allegedly, it showed shoppers ransacking a store on Black Friday, which fell on November 24 this year.
“This Black Friday discount must have been amazing. Look at all these satisfied customers,” reads the text accompanying one such video shared on X.
India Today Fact Check found that the video in question is more than three years old. It is from protests surrounding the 2020 police killing of George Floyd in the US.
Our Probe
With the help of a keyword search, we found the same video ( https://twitter.com/BenPopeCST/status/1266887022024757249?lang=en ) shared on X by a Chicago-based journalist Ben Pope on May 31, 2020. The accompanying text states, “Nike store on Michigan Ave smashed and completely looted.”
The video was also shared by Russian state media RT on May 31, 2020. According to a report published by RT, on that very day, a flagship Nike store in Michigan Avenue, Chicago, was destroyed and looted during a protest surrounding the death of George Floyd.
Floyd, an African-American, was killed on May 25, 2020, by policemen who knelt on his neck for almost ten minutes while arresting him for allegedly using a counterfeit bill. Following his death, massive anti-police protests erupted all across the US.
Several other shops in downtown Chicago including Zara, CVS, Walgreens, and Neiman Marcus were also reportedly looted and ransacked during this protest. Then Chicago mayor Lori Lightfoot condemned the looting at the time, and said: “When you or anyone else behaves in this way, we all lose by giving the very same forces of oppression we are fighting against the false validation that they crave.”
It is hence clear that the video in question is years old and does not show Black Friday shoppers looting a Nike store.
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