People walk on a beach in Toronto on Monday, Sept. 18, 2023. A staged video of a man appearing to try to defecate on a beach has been spread online recently as if it were authentic. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Spencer Colby
SCIn December, multiple social media accounts shared a video in which a woman supposedly confronts an Indian "newcomer" seen defecating on a ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø beach. The video is staged. It was originally posted in July by a ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø YouTuber, and the woman has appeared in multiple videos on his channel.
In December, several posts circulated on social media that to show a confrontation between a woman and an Indian male "newcomer" apparently seen defecating on a ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø beach.
One X user referred to the man as a "Hindu migrant from India" and the incident took place at Wasaga Beach, Ont.
ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø could not verify the location of the beach in the video.
Some of the posts received thousands of likes and hundreds of shares, with some commenters calling for the man to be deported.
The video is a skit published earlier this year by a YouTube content creator.
The video shows a topless man squatting in the sand with his bottom half blurred.
The woman, who is filming, approaches him and says he cannot defecate on the beach.
"This is Canada," she says.
The man says he is from India and repeatedly asks the woman not to film him.
At some points in the video, both he and the woman appear to be laughing.
Comments under some of the posts pointed to the original video to X by the user @RoUncensored on July 28. The video also appears to have been posted to , where it was removed for violating the site's policy on nudity.
The X user, who is also the man in the video, identifies himself on his as Rohan Kumar Pall,based in Ottawa.
His social media posts and videos include inflammatory content about ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø politics and the Khalistani separatist movement.
In other X posts, Pall says he is ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø and that while he is of Indian "bloodline," .
The video of the supposed beach confrontation seems to suggest the woman and man do not know each other. However, the woman in several on Pall's YouTube channel.
Pall posted the video this summer amid rumours that people from India were defecating on ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø beaches.
Those rumours grew after a Wasaga Beach resident claimed on TikTok that "immigrants" and "Indian families" left fecal matter behind in holes they dug on the beach, according to an from the Toronto Star on Aug. 16.
However, both the Wasaga Beach mayor and Ontario's provincial Ministry of the Environment, Conservation and Parks said there was no evidence public defecation ever took place at the beach, to Global News.
Claims can be found on X on Dec. 14, 2024 () and on Dec. 8, 2024 ()
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