Is a video showing a Portland police officer threaten to arrest an ICE agent if he doesn’t stop “driving into people,” and the agent replying “won’t be messy” authentic? No, that’s not true: A longer video giving a wider view reveals the officer is warning a woman in a civilian vehicle, who has no apparent connection to ICE, that she would be arrested if she makes a right turn onto a street where protesters are standing. The purported transcript is fabricated since the video did not record what the driver said.
The claim appeared in social media posts, including a post (archived here) shared on October 4, 2025. The caption introducing the video read:
Finally true law enforcement are standing against the Trump’s ICE Gestapo👮🏻♂️:…