The latest YouTube video from the “TrueStoryASA” account may be anything but.

The YouTube account, run by Adam Saleh and Sheikh Akbar, consists mostly of prank videos recorded by the pair. But in a video titled “Racial Profiling Experiment,” uploaded on Sunday, they tried to take a more serious tone.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LRLkwkG5nPE

The video showed the two men, wearing everyday street clothes, walking by an NYPD officer while arguing loudly and even shoving each other. The cop ignores them.

Twenty minutes later, the same two men, this time garbed in “cultural clothing,” walked toward the same officer. They were arguing but barely touched each other compared to the previous confrontation. This time, the cop intervened, eventually putting the two up against a wall and frisking them.

Clearly a case of profiling, right?

Not so fast.

A man named John Cardillo, who identifies himself on Twitter as a contributor to The Blaze and a former New York cop, claims the supposed officer in the video is really a fake.

“I was NYPD,” he wrote. “Wrong gear. No radio. No collar brass. No memo book. It’s clearly a costume. Not NYPD tactics.”

These and other discrepancies were not enough to keep lefty websites like The Free Thought Project and The Anti-Media from running with the story. Even the UK’s The Daily Mirror got sucked in.

Numerous tweets from Cardillo and Progressives Today to Saleh’s Twitter handle asking about the apparent fraud received no response.

“I’ve tried to get @omgAdamSaleh to comment since yesterday,” Cardillo wrote. “All I received was a ‘shut the f*** up’ from one of his cronies.”

“How #progressive!” Progressives Today responded.

So now, unless the two videographers provide a reasonable explanation for their response, and soon, it looks as though the video meant to embarrass American law enforcement is instead going to be egg on the face of TrueStoryASA.

Fake filmmaker @omgAdamsaleh stages bad actor as real cop. Media runs with it. Def not NYPD. Please RT @ProgsToday http://t.co/SWlk7I0YEt

— John Cardillo (@johncardillo) October 21, 2014

@johncardillo @omgAdamSaleh That doesn’t look like how a real cop would take on 2 perps. If they don’t name the “cop” it looks like fraud.

— Progressives Today (@ProgsToday) October 21, 2014

@ProgsToday Filming police in public is 100% legal. Why blur a real cop’s face? The blurring was done to protect the actor. @omgAdamSaleh

— John Cardillo (@johncardillo) October 21, 2014

@ProgsToday I’ve tried to get @omgAdamSaleh to comment since yesterday. All I received was a “shut the f*** up” from one of his cronies.

— John Cardillo (@johncardillo) October 21, 2014

Hey @SammyLizzy there are reports surfacing that the video @omgAdamSaleh posted is a bad fake. Have you been duped? Looks like it.

— Progressives Today (@ProgsToday) October 21, 2014

@ProgsToday @SammyLizzy @omgAdamSaleh It is mind blowing that anyone could actually watch that video and think it’s real.

— DHancock (@ArmedInTexas) October 21, 2014

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