The internet, in its infinite unseriousness, has once again struck comedic gold. This time, the Meme Queen is Jimisha Avlani, a tourist from India who’s become a TikTok sensation after bodycam footage of her police questioning went viral. In the video, cheeky police officers accuse Avlani of a seven-hour, $1,300 Target shopping spree (without the “paying” part) while our Meme Queen repeatedly insists she didn’t mind settling up. As predicted, hilarity ensued as her unrelenting words and innocent face became entertainment.
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The viral video was uploaded to Body Cam Edition, a channel on Youtube that uploads police body cam footage, and has been viewed over 1 million times in the last ten days. In the video, Avlani stresses that she does not want to be taken to the police station, fearing the embarrassment it will bring her. Unfortunately for Avlani, she was correct in knowing that many people would hear about what she did, and the internet can never be serious.
However, what might surprise Avlani is that most of the internet is on her side because of how funny people found the video. Creators on TikTok have ranked the funniest moments in the footage and even gone out of their way to create skits, make edits of Avlani and create A1 movies.
She has been crowned a Diva
In one edit that has gone viral on TikTok, the comments are filled with supporters of Avlani who express that she has done nothing wrong.
“Free my diva she did nothing wrong,” wrote one user in the comments.
“God forbid a girl forgetting her wallet in the car,” commented another user with an eye roll emoji.
Funniest Moments
In another video, a TikTok creator made a ranking of the funniest moments in the interactions between Avlani and the police. Like the fact that at one moment Avlani pointed out that she had taken more merchandise than the security’s $500 estimation.
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“We need more honest people in the world like her,” says this TikTok creator who makes a defense case for Avlani.
“Like why can’t a woman have hobbies?? She should be allowed to leave the store with an item or 2,” wrote another user in the comments.
Memeified
Other users have taken Avlani’s plea to pay for the items and turned them into memes of relatable situations for themselves. For example, one creator compared it to being caught not paying for the subway in New York.
Even though the internet has turned Avlani into an icon, she still faces a felony retail theft charge as the value of the items she stole “surpassed Illinois’s $300 threshold.”
The US Embassy in India also released a statement on X, formerly Twitter, in regards to the incident that reads:
“Committing assault, theft, or burglary in the United States won’t just cause you legal issues—it could lead to your visa being revoked and make you ineligible for future U.S. visas. The United States values law and order and expects foreign visitors to follow all U.S laws.”
There has not yet been a verdict about what will happen to Avlani, but if it were to come under TikTok’s jurisdiction, she would definitely be walking free.
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