Video of Scottish teen girl brandishing weapons goes viral.

 

Screencap of the viral video. Source unknown. 

A video of a Scottish teenaged girl has gone viral as it shows her brandishing a machete and ax. Scottish Daily Express. The girl, age 14, was charged with carrying an illegal weapon in Dundee Scotland. The video, which has gone viral on X and other social media platforms, shows the girl yelling at the man filming her saying they are "battering kids" and "you're kid bashers". Another girl said "don't punch my little sister, she's 12". The man filming said "show the knife" and the girl did. It is unclear what happened in the lead up to the incident and Scottish police have remained mum on the incident, only acknowledging her arrest. Scottish media has not covered the story extensively, due to censorship laws regarding crimes committed by children. The story has gone viral under the perception that the 14 year old was protecting herself and sister from a migrant man. 

BREAKING - Police have arrested and charged a 14-year-old girl after she was forced to brandish a knife to defend herself and her friend against a migrant who attempted to assault her near St Ann’s Lane in Dundee, Scotland. pic.twitter.com/odBjzIZugA

— Right Angle News Network (@Rightanglenews) August 25, 2025

My Comment:

 This is another reason why censorship about crime is a bad thing. We only have the viral video and some pretty biased reporting to try and figure out what is going on with this incident and with that being true folks are relying on their prejudices and preconceptions to try and understand this story. 

The viral social media explanation is pretty simple. Some Muslim migrant was harassing a group of teenage girls and this girl tried to defend herself and others with weapons. There is at least some evidence to support that, though the girls words make it sound like they were getting physically assaulted, not sexually. And the man does appear to speak Arabic at the end, though, given the accents of everyone involved, it's very hard to tell. 

But is that narrative correct? We don't know and we don't really have a way to know at this point. If the source of the video comes forward, or the girls themselves, then perhaps we can find out, but right now the media isn't really able to tell us anything because the Scottish police aren't saying anything. Only right wing outlets are covering the viral nature of the video at all, like the Scottish Daily Express and The Blaze.

It's very possible that some kind of damning or mitigating evidence will come out about this case. Given the massive social media attention I am guessing that eventually the truth will be known. But by then it might not even matter. Folks have been burned by viral cases like this before, which is why I am hedging so much in covering this incident. It's very possible that the facts of the case end up being what they appear to be. But we have no idea and it could be that the girl really was the one in the wrong, or that there is no real racial angle to this story at all. 

Does it even matter at this point? If you are just reading about this story here, you might be surprised just how viral this story is on social media. It's so popular on X/Twitter that even Elon Musk has talked about it, along with just about every major right wing poster talking about it. The narrative is set now and even new evidence might not change things. 

So why did this go viral? Because it plays into the narrative that currently dominates the UK, that native born English and Scotts are 2nd class citizens in their own countries and that migrants, Muslim migrants in particular, get special treatment. If the online narrative is correct, then this is a case of a young girl getting attacked, defending herself from harassment, violence, and/or sexual assault and then getting arrested for it. And that's a narrative that is going to go viral as it's an obvious injustice. 

Of course, much of this is cultural. American laws on self defense and carrying weapons are radically different than Scotland. I carry a pocket knife every day and have done so as long as I can remember. But in Scotland you absolutely cannot carry a knife or ax like this and though they do have self defense laws, I doubt they would apply in this case. That would have happened regardless of the race of the teens or the man. Americans have latched onto this because we obviously think that is ridiculous. Folks should be able to carry a weapon if they choose to do so and everyone has a right to self defense. 

It does seem that the UK is close to a tipping point. This probably isn't the thing that will tip the UK into open civil war, but it certainly seems like it is heading in that direction. It doesn't seem to matter at all what the UK voters do, whoever they put in charge refuses to do anything about immigration and when you no longer have any influence over what the government does at some point something has to give. Given that the government doesn't seem to care at all about removing migrants, I don't see how the UK survives. 

Interesting new flag out of Scotland pic.twitter.com/82Lub4BsFT

— Angantýr (@BasedNorthmathr) August 25, 2025

Regardless of the truth of this encounter, the fact is that the narrative has already formed. Though it might end up being true, the little girl is a hero to millions now, and the man is a demon. Could that change in the future? Of course. But right now the girl has turned into a symbol of everything that is wrong with Scotland and the UK. Not everyone agrees, many people in Scotland are critical of the girl, even calling her trashy, but it will be interesting to say the least which narrative will win out.