A private security guard who works on London's Oxford Street has become a social media star for posting videos of alleged shoplifters to TikTok. Critics argue that the videos are stoking fear and hate. 📷: Andrew Bret Wallis/Getty Images
What’s concerning is how this type of footage publicly targets people who have not yet been proven guilty. In 2021,and posted an image of an innocent man as an arson suspect and offered a $30,000 reward for information leading to his arrest. It’s easy to see something similar happening on TikTok, where someone is wrongly accused of a crime and then made vulnerable to harassment, abuse, or even violence as a result.
“Six other small businesses reached out after it went viral to ask for her information, because she’s hit their stores as well,” Milan explains. “Some business owners were then able to press charges against her.” We asked the Metropolitan Police whether they monitor illegal activity on TikTok. A spokesperson responded: “You can’t report a crime via TikTok […] We don’t routinely monitor social media, but if anything is brought to our attention in the course of an investigation of a crime that has been reported to us, then it will be looked at.”
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