A video has surfaced on social media in which a woman, who identifies herself as Alicia Brown, claims that she was the victim of a hit-and-run accident involving Vice President Kamala Harris in 2011. The video, published with the graphics of a news channel called KBSF-TV, has the woman describing how she was a victim of the accident, but could not come forward because she was afraid.
However, as has been pointed out by many, there is no channel called KBSF-TV in San Francisco. The domain of the website was registered on August 20, 2024, and it has been publishing stories for a little more than two weeks.
According to the reader's added context section of a post containing a screenshot of the KBSF-TV article, the post "appears to be a complete fabrication." The article was published on September 2, and claimed that Harris hit Brown with a car when the latter was 13, and left the scene.
Brown claims in the video that Harris' team intimidated her mother, which is why she could not come out with the story before. However, after her mother died in 2024, she said she has decided to come out.
Here's the post:
A bald faced lie. There is no "KBSF" TV station in San Francisco or the U.S, and the linked website went live a few days ago. https://t.co/z60ivmFG74
— G O L D I E. (@goldietaylor) September 3, 2024
Moreover, as many social media users pointed out, the X-ray images of supposed damage to Brown have been taken from stock X-ray images from a 12-year-old case published in an open-access journal. Furthermore, no official documentation of the case exists, and there is no official complaint filed by Brown, apart from what she claims in the video.
This is so messed up. The images they use are from a 12 year old case from an open access journal. https://t.co/44XgVZo2Kz@KamalaHQ please find the IP and sue for defamation and improper use of a medical image, this is bonkers. pic.twitter.com/Vr8XSwQowq
— Arturo LoAIza-Bonilla, MD MSEd (@DrBonillaOnc) September 3, 2024
Kamala Harris, a long-time San Francisco resident, has served as the attorney general of California, as well as a Senator from the state before becoming the Vice President in 2021.