Police in Virginia are not pressing charges against two teenagers identified as having filmed themselves coughing on produce in a grocery store and uploading the video to social media. Authorities are warning of the ‘disturbing trend’ which has appeared on social media as the coronavirus pandemic worsened, calling on parents to monitor their children’s actions online. Videos have been emerging on social media such as this one where a person pretends to cough in a grocery store and the other reacts to it. Some people called for them to be arrested as police have done in other social media challenges: 'They should be arrested just as the people with the licking ice cream situation.' In one video posted to TikTok, two people are seen inside a grocery store with one coughing and sneezing as he walks past the other shopping.

Source: Daily Mail March 21, 2020 16:17 UTC