Old Video Of A Man Assaulted In UK Shared As Recent Clip With Communal Angle

This is an old video from 2018 and has been falsely shared as a recent incident.

A video showing a group of boys beating a man in a uniform is being shared on social media platforms.

• Those sharing claimed that a traffic warden was robbed and beaten by Muslim boys over a parking ticket in the United Kingdom (UK).

• Some users also wrote that such an incident occurred following the Labour Party's win in the recent elections.

(Archives of similar claims can be found here and here.)

We received a query about this on our WhatsApp tipline, as well.

Is this true?: While this incident did take place, it is not recent. It dates back to 2018 and took place in Birmingham, UK.

What We Found: We divided the video into multiple screenshots and ran a Google reverse image search on some of them.

• The results showed us multiple news reports from 2018 about a group of boys attacking and robbing a traffic warden in Birmingham, UK.

• According to a story by The Independent from 14 November 2018, a teenager was facing jail time after pleading guilty to assaulting a traffic warden in broad daylight.

• The attacker, Danyal Bashir, 19, was one of several individuals who kicked and stamped on Charlie Weston, the warden, on 14 September 2018 after he attempted to issue a ticket for an illegally parked car.

• The story featured the same viral video as well.

• Another report by The Sun from 17 September 2018 narrated the account of the victim, the warden who was attacked. Weston expressed his happiness to be alive following this attack.

• The report had multiple frames placed in the story which matched with the viral video. Here are the similarities between the two.

Conclusion: An old video of a group of people attacking a traffic officer in UK is being shared as recent with a communal undertone.

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