Is a video showing a transgender Florida student fake, AI-generated, or staged? No, that’s not true: The footage is body camera video from the University of Central Florida Police Department. The incident occurred in February 2025 and involved then-student Jarrett Vick, who was upset about how police used pronouns when referring to them during an encounter that resulted in their arrest.<\/p>\n
The claim appeared in a post and video<\/a> (archived here<\/a>) by the @Shawdes29 account on X on July 22, 2026. It read:<\/p>\n You can tell this is fake because of the caricature of a ‘trans person’. It’s the same design as all the anti trans memes right wingers share. This is what they think trans people are.<\/p>\n The clip is from authentic body camera video recorded by the University of Central Florida Police Department. It is not fake, AI-generated, or staged. The footage showing Vick was recorded on February 5, 2025. University of Central Florida (UCF) Public Safety Communications Manager Amanda Sellers responded to a Lead Stories request for information in a July 23, 2026, email. Her statement said:<\/p>\n Jarrett Vick was last enrolled at UCF in Spring 2025, is not a current student, and did not graduate from the university.<\/p>\n It is important to note that the incident referenced occurred in February 2025, more than a year ago. At that time, UCF Police officers responded to reports that Vick was involved in a verbal altercation with several juveniles and became combative with officers upon their arrival. Vick was subsequently arrested and charged with Battery on a Law Enforcement Officer, Disorderly Conduct, and Resisting an Officer with Violence.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Is a video showing a transgender Florida student fake, AI-generated, or staged? No, that’s not true: The footage…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":350805,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[122460,28,30,29,141734,81402,143520,2103],"class_list":["post-350804","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-florida","tag-camera-video","tag-florida","tag-florida-headlines","tag-florida-news","tag-jarrett-vick","tag-lead-stories","tag-trans-person","tag-university-of-central-florida"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/350804","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=350804"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/350804\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/350805"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=350804"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=350804"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=350804"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}