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4. Joy-Ann Reid: "They've weaponized antiblackness"
Sun Oct 19, 2025, 04:55 PM
Oct 2025

Joy-Ann Reid calls out DHS for AI-generated video of Black men threatening ICE

Journalist and former MSNBC host Joy-Ann Reid is sounding alarm bells over a recent post from the Department of Homeland Security’s Instagram.

DHS posted a TikTok on its X account of a group of young Black men threatening to hunt down ICE agents in exchange for a bounty. In the caption, the government agency wrote, “FAFO. If you threaten or lay hands on our enforcement officers, we will hunt you down and you will find out, really quick. We’ll see you cowards soon.”

However, the video is AI-generated. However, the video is AI-generated. And it is stolen from an actual TikTok user who never threatened ICE.

“They essentially used this man’s video to create a fake threat against ICE from young Black men,” Reid said.

“They’ve weaponized antiblackness; they’ve weaponized a lie that these federal agents are being threatened and that there’s a bounty on their heads. And they’re using antiblackness in order to create this fake sense of threat.”

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/opinion/joy-ann-reid-calls-out-dhs-for-ai-generated-video-of-black-men-threatening-ice/ar-AA1OLJXS

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