Because he did make that shit up. When the local, a Swedish news outlet, contacted the police, quote, a press officer said that Poole did not receive an escort. Frida Nordloff of the Swedish police said, quote, when Tim Pool took out a camera and started filming a group of young people, they pulled their hoods up and covered their faces and shouted at him to stop filming. The officers then told Tim Pool that it wasn't wise to stay there in the middle of the square and keep filming. So he's completely misrepresented this interaction as being followed and, you know, somehow... It's a fucking bullshit.