An 18-year-old who breaks into strangers’ homes to create content on TikTok without their consent learned the hard way that you can’t do everything under the pretense of a joke when he was handcuffed for public harassment.
“I do not underestimate the uproar, desperation and widespread concern these videos have caused. Some have called the videos “pranks” but I hope this significant development shows how seriously we take this investigation,” James Conway, Chief Inspector of the Metropolitan Police, told The Independent.
On Monday night, Bacari Ogarro, known on TikTok by the alias “Mizzy,” would have been handcuffed after making several questionable gestures that were shared on social networks.
In one of his videos, the 18-year-old filmed himself with his friends breaking into the home of a lady who was working on his land in Hackney, east London.
“What are you doing?” she says frantically to the group, who ignores her, before telling her spouse to join her “immediately” as the young man enters a room to sit briefly on the sofa.
At the end of the video, the three people appear to be walking towards the exit after being told there are children downstairs.
In two other videos, the young man is said to have filmed himself destroying a book in a library and getting into the back seat of a stranger’s car.
The arrest for public nuisance is said to have followed several videos, “including apparently unsolicited approaches to people on the street or in transport, as well as intrusions into addresses without the apparent permission of the owners,” the superintendent continued, according to the British media.
In an interview with The Independent, the young content creator suggested that part of the negative reaction to his videos was due to the color of his skin.
“I’m a black man who does these things and that’s why there’s so much uproar on the internet,” he reportedly said.