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A Philadelphia police officer named Derek Mullins attempted an illegal raid on the property of Black federal prosecutor Jasmine Carter.
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In December 2025, online users shared videos telling the allegedly true story of a Philadelphia police officer named Derek Mullins attempting an illegal raid on the property of Black federal prosecutor Jasmine Carter.
For example, on Dec. 12, a user managing the Bodycam Justice Files YouTube channel posted an advertisement-filled video (archived) titled, “Police Racially Profile Assistant US Attorney at Her Own Door – Career Over, 8 Years Prison.”
The video begins with a brief clip showing apparent police body-camera footage. In the clip, a Black woman standing in her doorway responds to the officer wearing the camera. That officer claims he and his fellow officers obtained a warrant to search her property.
A Snopes reader emailed to ask if the story truly occurred:
A “story” just popped up in my YouTube feed about an alleged interaction between a (heroic?) black female U.S. Attorney in Eastern Pennsylvania and an allegedly corrupt Philadelphia cop named “Derek Mullins” and how this black female US Attorney allegedly got this Mullins guy investigated & fired for lying in warrant applications. Just google for “Derek Mullins” and “Philadelphia Police” and you’ll find a bunch of different Instagram & Facebook repeats of this story. The thing is, that you WON’T find a single reliable news outlet that is reporting on this alleged story! So, I need you/Snopes to find out if the story is bulls***/propaganda or what (please).
In short, this story was fabricated and the brief body-camera clip at the beginning of the video was created with artificial intelligence — as were the video’s narration and scripting. The user creating the video sought to earn YouTube advertising revenue based on emotional, racially charged content.
Snopes contacted the Philadelphia Police Department to obtain official confirmation that the video depicted a completely made-up story. We also asked if the department wished to comment about false stories and AI-generated clips casting their officers in a negative light, and will update this article if we receive further information. The Bodycam Justice Files YouTube channel did not provide any contact details.
Digging into the false story and fake video
The false story originating from the Bodycam Justice Files YouTube channel — subsequently shared by users in other videos on Facebook (archived), Instagram (archived), Threads (archived), TikTok (archived) and YouTube — tells the story of three Philadelphia police officers named Derek (or Derrick) Mullins (or Mullen, or Mullin), Chris Santos and Rebecca Walsh.
In the story, the officers, led by Mullins, attempt to conduct an illegal raid with a “defective warrant” on property owned by 29-year-old Jasmine Carter, a federal prosecutor and assistant U.S. attorney for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania.
At the end of the tale, a court sentences Mullins to eight years in federal prison for his illegal action, officials fire or imprison other officers, courts dismiss 19 cases and the city pays settlements totaling more than $18 million.
Searches of Bing, DuckDuckGo, Google and Yahoo found no news media outlets reporting any such stories about people with the aforementioned names, nor any information about settlements or other court actions.
The Bodycam Justice Files YouTube video ended with dramatic wording similar to the way AI tools generate conclusions to fabricated stories. Other videos hosted on the channel also contained similar themes and displayed signs of AI-generated narration, scripting and video clips.
Scans of the video’s script with AI-detection websites displayed inconsistent results. However, the idea that a user sat down to carefully write a 5,000-plus-word script for the false story — and many, many other made-up stories — did not align with the way AI-for-profit channels typically operate.
At least four YouTube videos told the same story except with other brief AI-generated body-camera clips depicting a completely different-looking Black woman representing Carter. The short duration of the body-camera clip — whether 8, 10, 12 or 15 seconds — provided one clue of the short video’s AI origins. Popular AI tools offering generative-video models usually set maximum durations with the same brief timings.
For further reading, we previously reported about a story documenting the alleged disappearance of a boy named Eric Langford.
