Old Singapore video resurfaced with false claim it shows 'assault in China'

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Old Singapore video resurfaced with false claim it shows 'assault in China'
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This video was shared with a false claim that it shows a black man attacking a Chinese man on a metro train in China. Singaporean police told AFP the clip was in fact taken in the city-state in 2021.

A video of a man hitting another person has been shared hundreds of times in Chinese-language social media posts that falsely claim it shows a"black man assaulting a Chinese man" on a subway train in China.

Singaporean police told AFP the video was filmed in the city-state in 2021 and the 40-year-old attacker in the video was arrested on charges of public nuisance.The 14-second clip of a man dressed in black punching and kicking another person on the floor of a train was shared on"A black African violently beats a Chinese man on the subway in China," the caption in simplified Chinese reads.

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