- Police in London arrested a teen on suspicion of causing a public nuisance.
- This follows a string of TikToks where a creator entered people's home without permission.
Police in London arrested a teenager on suspicion of causing a public nuisance, following a string of TikToks made by a creator breaking into people's homes, and bothering strangers on the street.
The arrest late Monday came after officers launched an investigation into the posts, which sparked widespread criticism.
All the posts were by Bacari Ogarro. One showed him appearing to walk into a stranger's home unannounced and scaring the occupants, and in another he picked up a woman's dog and ran off with it.
London's Metropolitan Police did not name the person they arrested, only saying it was an 18-year-old in the east of the city.
A police statement describing the circumstances of the arrest and the scope of the investigation match Ogarro and his videos.
James Conway, a senior Metropolitan Police officer, said in the statement: "Some people have referred to these as 'prank' videos, but I hope that this significant development demonstrates just how seriously we have been taking this investigation since this footage began circulating online."
Ogarro posted under the alias "Mizzy" on his account @secretmizzy. The account has since been removed.
In one video, posted a week ago, Ogarro entered a home in London with a group of his friends. He walked past a woman, who asked him what he was doing, and then yelled for her husband to "come to the front door."
Ogarro and the others entered the house, and started looking around. At one point he sat on a sofa. Ogarro told a man who came up to confront them that they were looking for a "study group."
The original post is no longer available, but the video was re-shared to Twitter where it was viewed 29 million times.
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Ogarro also faced criticism in February, where he appeared to be targeting Jewish people, the Jewish Chronicle reported. In one video, he entered the home of a Jewish family, and in another he attempted to leapfrog over a Jewish man. Ogarro also dressed in a hoiche hat and cycled around while shouting, "Guys I'm a fucking Jew."
"I don't discriminate," he said in the video. "A lot of videos just in my area fucking around with people. Jewish people, Black people, white people."
Ogarro said in a YouTube video at the time he was arrested and held by police for 36 hours. This aligns with an earlier police statement which referred to "previous police action" concerning the same person.
Ogarro told The Independent in an interview published Monday that he thought it was "wild how I've got that mainstream."
He said he regretted the house-invasion video and "wouldn't do that again."
"It could have been the best or worst decision of my life," he said.
Ogarro said he believed people were trying to "slander" him because of his identity.
"I'm a Black male doing these things and that's why there's such an uproar on the internet," he said.