A VIDEO SHARED recently on social media alongside a caption claiming that it shows a black man assaulting a white woman in Ireland was actually filmed elsewhere.

The video shows an incident from Missouri in the US almost three years ago.

It shows a woman being assaulted by a man in a stairwell. The man punches the woman and kicks her repeatedly while she is on the ground, before leaving. Two other men then walk by the woman while she is on the ground.

An account posted the video on Facebook on 4 April with a caption claiming it was filmed in Ireland. 

“African brutally assaults innocent white girl unprovoked! Separation not integration! Please share to raise awareness! Ireland needs you! Play your part in the fightback! Join Síol na hÉireann Ireland’s fastest growing political movement below!”

The account regularly shares hateful, xenophobic, anti-immigration content purporting to be from the UK or Ireland.

Many comments on the video express similar sentiments to the one expressed in the caption. However, the video is not from Ireland.

A 5 September 2023 article in the Springfield Daily Citizen, a news organisation based in Springfield, Missouri, reports that the video shows an assault that took place in Springfield on Sunday, 10 July, 2022. 

“A Springfield man who was caught on a security video punching a woman in the face was given probation by a Greene County judge Sept. 5,” the article states

“That video somehow made its way to social media platforms and went viral, even resurging several times in the months that followed the attack.

Rostell Caleb King, 28, pleaded guilty to first-degree domestic assault causing serious physical injury in May for an assault that happened in the early morning hours of Sunday, July 10, 2022.

The article contains footage and stills of the exact same video that was shared by the above account on Facebook. It is clear that the footage is from an incident that occurred almost three years ago in the US.

The post claiming the footage was filmed in Ireland is false.

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