A video has recently surfaced on social media showing a man spitting on a pizza while making claiming that the person was a Muslim refugee from Algeria and the video was taken in a restaurant in London.

A Facebook user shared the video with the caption in Hindi that can be roughly translated to, "This is a scene from a restaurant in London. This “peaceful” is a refugee from Algeria. Once you know that the restaurant is run by “them”, just leave as soon as you can or else eat their spit."

The video is being widely shared on Facebook and Twitter with the same claim.

With the video, it is being claimed that visuals are from a Pakistani restaurant in London.

The truth behind the claim 

 In our investigation, we found this claim to be false. The video dates back to 2018 and is from Detroit, US. The religion nor the country of origin of the person was mentioned in any of the reports. 

With the help of reverse image search using the keyframes of the video, we found several news reports published in 2018. Reportedly,  the person in the video is identified as Jaylon Kerley, who was fired after the clip went viral. Kerley later pleaded guilty and was placed on 18-months probation. 

According to a report published in WXYZ-TV, an ABC-affiliated television station stated that the co-worker of Kerley, who posted the viral video online said that the employee did it because he was "having a bad day”.

Notedly, none of the reports mentioned the religion of the person or his country of origin.

In conclusion,  an old video showing a man spitting on a pizza in Detroit, US is being widely shared on social media with a false claim that it showed a Muslim refugee in a London restaurant.