In the early-morning hours of August 3, 2019, a seventeen-year-old young woman was returning from a party in the working-class Mexico City district of Azcapotzalco. Together with some friends, she took an app-service taxi that left her a few blocks from home, leaving her to walk the rest of the way.

The details of what happened next are unclear. In her statement, the young woman alleged that a police car with four officers pulled up beside her and offered to give her a ride home. She refused and knocked at a nearby door in order to pretend she’d arrived home. Nevertheless, the officers pulled her into the car, where they proceeded to subdue and rape her. Once she was ejected from the car, she knocked again in desperation at the same building, whose inhabitants called 911. The call brought more police cars and an ambulance to the scene.

On August 15, however, the Attorney General’s Office for Mexico City released a pair of closed-circuit camera videos that appeared to tell a different story. According to the footage, the young woman is indeed approached by a police car, but is not pulled into it: instead, two officers get out to speak with her (the view of this interaction is impeded by a post). Two minutes later, several more police vehicles arrive on the scene, followed moments later by the ambulance. In the words of spokesperson Ulises Lara, “circumstances, place, and acts do not coincide with what has been declared by the victim,” who has been asked to clarify her initial statement.