Overview

• Officers responded around 7:40 p.m. on Aug. 23 to St Ann Lane in Dundee after a report of a female youth with a bladed weapon, and a 14-year-old was charged to be reported to the relevant authorities.
• A widely shared video shows two girls confronting at least two men as one girl brandishes an axe and a knife and shouts that her sister is 12.
• Police Scotland spokesperson Lisa Smith said no adults connected to the incident were arrested or charged.
• Claims online that the men were migrants or non‑local speakers have circulated without police confirmation.
• The clip has drawn tens of millions of views and fueled political commentary, as broader reporting notes a long-term decline in knife homicides in Scotland alongside recent increases in youth knife possession.