Muslim YouTubers, Adam Saleh and Sheikh Akbar have revealed their racial profiling “social experiment” video was staged.
The footage showed a New York police officer frisking the pair 20 minutes after they changed from Western clothing into traditional Muslim clothes.
The two comedians posted this apology on YouTube, and acknowledged their video was in fact a “dramatization” meant to bring awareness to racial profiling.
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