Not only that, but FBI dont flash a badge per se, it is attached to their credentials, their commission so to speak, with a picture and some legal stuff.
Yes, that is pretty close. Likely slightly changed for TV, but still close.
Can anyone provide context for the viral video (undercover FBI agent on plane puts cop in his place)
Flight Attendant: “FBI? Federal Bureau of Investigation?”
Passenger: “No ma’am. Female Body Inspector. Let’s get started!”
Cop: “Booyah!!”
[Cop and passenger high-five, flight attendant swoons]
I’ve also never seen a cop carry his body cam at eye level (stewardess looking directly into the camera). And exactly which airline is that supposed to be a uniform from?
Thats a bullshit video. Also undercover agents don’t have their badges around their necks.
Having said that, I once read a book called ‘Under and Alone’. It was about an ATF agent who goes undercover as a member of a biker gang.
One time he was driving his car around with a fellow biker, and they got pulled over by the cops. The cops, realizing they were bikers started tearing the car apart looking for drugs and weapons. While tearing the car apart, they found a bunch of hidden electronics equipment under the floorboards. The cops kept asking him what the electronics were for, and the undercover agent kept blowing the cops off. They were spy equipment, but the undercover agent didn’t want to tell the cops that.
Eventually the cops figured out what was happening, they gave the undercover agent his switchblade back and told him to have a nice day. He said the other biker was so high/drunk that he didn’t even remember being pulled over.
The undercover agent also said that at various points he seriously considered outing himself as an undercover agent when a serious crime was about to happen in case he needed to out himself to stop it.
Just take a look at the other videos on that channel, and pay attention to the views they have (hint: basically none). These people make nothing but bullshit “corrupt cops” videos. This one happened to go viral.
Yup, that’s a fake set. There are a lot of videos these days showing fake plane interactions - they’re all on this set or something similar. Windows are closed, seats are up near the wall separating first class, all the other seats are empty.
I just watched it again and I noticed her fingernails are long, differently colored and some look kinda garish. I can’t imagine that would fly with most, if not all, airlines.
This is the fakest damned thing I have ever seen.
The OP may have created more hits for that video than they ever hoped for. 
100% staged.
That is often the issue when discussing bad YouTubes. Sure, you can add a thumbs down, but once you have watched- even a little- they get a “click”. The vid is clickbait for sure.
I agree. There are plenty of videos on social media that have the same defects - rows of empty seats on an (almost) empty plane, except for the perps. Obvious incorrect behaviour by staff, or outrageous behaviour by other passengers. I wonder if there’s a movie set for this that you can rent by the hour, or someone has access to empty planes.
Stupid for clicks. As someone posted - when I have a programming question, I post it online. Then I login with another account and post an obviously incorrect answer. Dozens of people will post the correct answer simply to point out how wrong that answer was while a simple question often doesn’t get any answers.
The classic stupid for clicks video I recall was someone installing hardwood flooring using a metal hammer to push the boards into place. A simple video of how to install hardwood flooring gets few notices, but one where everyone watches it then comments on how wrong it is, gets a very lucrative amount of views and comments (and thus gets promoted even more by the algorithms.) The latest and greatest trick is extreme events that are obviously AI generated. Stupid, but how many people commenting “this is obciously fake and AI” is probably quite rewarding.
The worst are the fake animal rescue videos where the perps do something awful to an animal (the smaller & cuter the better) like cover it in tar, and then “rescue” it for the clicks. As you note, even all those who respond by condemning them add to their payoff.
How do you know which are which? Because let’s be honest, there are a lot of assholes that abandon and abuse animals.
Huh, (Johnny Carson Voice) I did not know that. I mean I know a couple of D&D haters deliberately post controversial ideas and complaints to get clicks, but I didnt know about “stupid for clicks”.
I killed all such feeds when it became obvious that one set of assholes made their dog chase their car, so as to pretend it was a stray wanting to “go home” with them. I could see the tabs from its collar flopping around when it ran, a collar which wasn’t there when they “found” it, but was back on him later in the vid when he got “adopted”. If your dog ends up running under your car as it chases it…I mean, what kind of psychos preplan to and keep filming a “beloved” pet in such a situation?
I have no immediate cite, but I could swear I read an article a couple months ago about just that.
I’m not sure if this is the same group (though I suspect it is) that has put out a bunch videos depicting bad behavior on planes and also in classrooms. The classroom looks as fake as the plane set. Often they throw in a racial component to try and to generate more clicks.
Who needs Russian bots when humans can do the same damage?