Fact Check: Video doesn't show people setting Jeep on fire during LA protests
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A video authentically showed people setting a Jeep on fire during June 2025 protests in Los Angeles over immigration enforcement.
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While the video of people setting fire to a Jeep in Los Angeles is real, it was not filmed during the June 2025 immigration protests. The video was taken in March 2024 during a street takeover in Los Angeles' Hyde Park neighborhood.
In June 2025, a video circulated on X claiming to show people in Los Angeles dousing a Jeep with gasoline and lighting it on fire.
The video was shared as thousands of demonstrators took to the streets in Los Angeles to protest immigration raids led by U.S. President Donald Trump's administration.
The footage appeared in a popular X post (archived) that read, "OVERNIGHT IN LA: Low IQ Illegal Aliens light themselves on FIRE after dousing Jeep with gasoline and lighting it. Do you feel bad for these guys?"
(X user @OcrazioCornPop)
The claim also appeared elsewhere on (archived) X (archived).
However, the video was miscaptioned. While the footage is authentic and was captured in Los Angeles, it does not show people dousing a Jeep in gasoline and setting it on fire amid the June 2025 protests. It was taken in March 2024 during an unrelated street takeover in Los Angeles.
Using InVid to isolate keyframes of the viral video and RevEye to conduct a reverse image search, Snopes traced the footage back to the March 2024 incident.
The reverse image search led us to a Daily Mail article published on March 15, 2024. The article included screenshots from a video that showed a Jeep doused in gasoline and set on fire during a street takeover in Los Angeles' Hyde Park neighborhood.
The Daily Mail credited the footage to a TikTok user. Snopes found an Instagram account with the same username that shared the footage of a Jeep set on fire in a post on March 9, 2024.
We also conducted a Google search using details from the Daily Mail article to find further reporting on the incident. That led us to an article published by Los Angeles news station KABC on March 12, 2024, that includes footage of the incident.
The video in the KABC article and on TikTok appear to be captured from a different angle than the footage shared in June 2025, but the videos clearly show the same incident. The person pouring the gasoline on the Jeep is wearing the same beanie and red coat in the KABC and TikTok videos and the footage shared in June 2025. A street sign for 63rd Street also is visible in all of the videos.
Though Snopes could not verify the source of the video circulating on X in June 2025, there was enough evidence to show it was filmed before the 2025 protests in Los Angeles.
The Los Angeles Police Department said the street takeover where the video was captured occurred at the intersection of 63rd Street and Crenshaw Boulevard in the early hours of March 9, 2024, according to KABC. Police said about 50 cars were involved in the street takeover and the crowd was already dispersing when officers arrived.
Snopes reached out to the LAPD for additional information about the video and incident, and is awaiting a response.
While the video of the Jeep is miscaptioned, protesters did set self-driving cars on fire during June 2025 clashes with federal immigration authorities in Los Angeles, The Associated Press reported.
Tatananni, Mackenzie. "Shocking Moment Woman Is Sent Flying and Knocked out Cold by Car Doing Donuts at 'Street Takeover'..." Mail Online, Daily Mail, 15 Mar. 2024, www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13200093/woman-car-donuts-street-takeover-Los-Angeles.html. Accessed 9 June 2025.
"Jeep Doused in Gasoline and Set on Fire during Chaotic Street Takeover in Hyde Park." ABC7 Los Angeles, 12 Mar. 2024, abc7.com/hyde-park-street-takeover-jeep-set-on-fire-video/14515977/. Accessed 9 June 2025.
Dearen, Jason and Sullivan, Tim. "California Governor Plans to File Lawsuit against Trump over National Guard Deployment to Protests." AP News, 9 June 2025, apnews.com/article/los-angeles-protests-national-guard-trump-14c9dda32663d7d2c45f2b1c5a1d219c. Accessed 9 June 2025.
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