Nationwide — Jacob Pederson, a police officer of the St. Paul Police Department, has been identified by some sources as the man in a viral video who is seen vandalizing and smashing store windows in Minneapolis.

The police department, however, is denying that the man in the video is one of their own.

They have released a statement to the media saying:

We are aware of the social media post that erroneously identifies one of our officers as the person caught on video breaking windows in Minneapolis.

We want to be perfectly clear about this: The person in the video is not our officer.

Social media, however, has a different take and many are convinced that the man in the video is indeed Officer Jacob Pederson.