{"id":336579,"date":"2026-09-03T02:50:12","date_gmt":"2026-09-03T02:50:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/336579\/"},"modified":"2026-09-03T02:50:12","modified_gmt":"2026-09-03T02:50:12","slug":"fact-check-fake-video-of-woman-who-stabbed-someone-in-nyc-dancing-with-pair-of-knives-it-is-digitally-edited","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/336579\/","title":{"rendered":"Fact Check: FAKE Video Of Woman Who Stabbed Someone In NYC Dancing With Pair Of Knives &#8212; It Is Digitally Edited"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Is this a real video of the woman who stabbed someone in NYC dancing with a pair of knives? No, that&#8217;s not true: The clip is a digitally manipulated version of a video posted to Britney Spears&#8217; Instagram account in September 2023. Although the clip replaces Spears with a different person, the background, down to the little dogs running around her feet, is the same as in the original.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The claim appeared in <a data-ylk=\"slk:a post and video;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas;\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;link&quot;,&quot;yLinkElementType&quot;:&quot;article_link&quot;}\" href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/TodaysNewsco\/status\/2095081360129925615\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">a post and video<\/a> (archived <a data-ylk=\"slk:here;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas;\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;link&quot;,&quot;yLinkElementType&quot;:&quot;article_link&quot;}\" href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20260902160844\/https:\/\/x.com\/TodaysNewsco\/status\/2095081360129925615\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>) by the @TodaysNewsco account on X on Sept. 2, 2026. It read:<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">\ud83d\udea8 NEWS ALERT<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">\ud83c\uddfa\ud83c\uddf8 Footage is circulating online showing the woman accused of killing Bank of America Vice President Erin Piacenti in Times Square, reportedly recorded before the fatal attack.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">This is what a screenshot of the video in the post looked like at the time of writing:<\/p>\n<p><img alt=\"Dancing person.jpg\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"687\" height=\"1200\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"1\" class=\"rounded-lg\" style=\"color:transparent\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/https:\/\/media.zenfs.com\/en\/lead_stories_560\/7b77be01258c9dcab14f0288be4713c4.jpg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Image source: post by @TodaysNewsco on X.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The video is embedded below:<\/p>\n<p>Britney Spears<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The clip above is a digitally manipulated version of <a data-ylk=\"slk:a video;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas;\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;link&quot;,&quot;yLinkElementType&quot;:&quot;article_link&quot;}\" href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/britneyspears\/p\/Cxo9Zqcr_IS\/?img_index=1\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">a video<\/a> (archived <a data-ylk=\"slk:here;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas;\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;link&quot;,&quot;yLinkElementType&quot;:&quot;article_link&quot;}\" href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20260902160443\/https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/britneyspears\/p\/Cxo9Zqcr_IS\/?img_index=1\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>) that Britney Spears posted to her Instagram account on Sept. 25, 2023. It read:<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">I started playing in the kitchen with knives today \ud83e\udd37\ud83c\udffc\u200d\u2640\ufe0f\ud83e\udd37\ud83c\udffc\u200d\u2640\ufe0f\ud83e\udd37\ud83c\udffc\u200d\u2640\ufe0f !!! Don&#8217;t worry they are NOT real knives !!! Halloween is soon \ud83d\ude48\ud83d\ude48\ud83d\ude48 !!!<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">This is what a screenshot of the video in the post looked like at the time of writing:<\/p>\n<p><img alt=\"Britney Still.jpg\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"720\" height=\"900\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"1\" class=\"rounded-lg\" style=\"color:transparent\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/https:\/\/media.zenfs.com\/en\/lead_stories_560\/c7dd400b87f869e51ac4e390ed150ee8.jpg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Image source: post by @britneyspears on Instagram.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The video is embedded below:<\/p>\n<p>Comparison<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Side by side, the similarities between screenshots of the two videos are clear. An AI body swap has substituted the woman in the T-shirt and jeans for Spears. The images show the same room, furniture, flooring, and small white dogs:<\/p>\n<p><img alt=\"side by side.png\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"902\" height=\"694\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"1\" class=\"rounded-lg\" style=\"color:transparent\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/https:\/\/media.zenfs.com\/en\/lead_stories_560\/3d0d243744412c4c0d121e57f6c6afb4.png\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Image sources: post by @britneyspears on Instagram and post by @TodaysNewsco on X.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Police shot and killed <a data-ylk=\"slk:a woman;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas;\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;link&quot;,&quot;yLinkElementType&quot;:&quot;article_link&quot;}\" href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/times-square-stabbing-police-shooting-ba082a9bcdf28aef91b3cc4762c2688a\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">a woman<\/a> (archived <a data-ylk=\"slk:here;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas;\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;link&quot;,&quot;yLinkElementType&quot;:&quot;article_link&quot;}\" href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20260902171053\/https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/times-square-stabbing-police-shooting-ba082a9bcdf28aef91b3cc4762c2688a\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>) who was accused of randomly stabbing two people with two knives in Times Square in New York City on Aug. 31, 2026. One of the victims, a 32-year-old Bank of America employee, died in the attack.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">A <a data-ylk=\"slk:WABC story;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas;\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;link&quot;,&quot;yLinkElementType&quot;:&quot;article_link&quot;}\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=XRI77_lYmqs\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">WABC story<\/a> (archived <a data-ylk=\"slk:here;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas;\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;link&quot;,&quot;yLinkElementType&quot;:&quot;article_link&quot;}\" href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20260902171753\/https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=XRI77_lYmqs\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>) on the attack is embedded below:<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Is this a real video of the woman who stabbed someone in NYC dancing with a pair of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":336580,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[13178,13121,2815,9,56,63,65,64,2027],"class_list":["post-336579","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york-city","tag-bank-of-america","tag-britney-spears","tag-instagram-account","tag-new-york","tag-ny","tag-nyc","tag-nyc-headlines","tag-nyc-news","tag-times-square"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/336579","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=336579"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/336579\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/336580"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=336579"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=336579"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=336579"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}