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Not what happened here though. He was taken off the train, released and told to get the next train.
He was refusing to obey the MTA rule of no feet on the seats:
https://abcnews.go.com/US/former-bear-writer-handcuffed-train-after-allegedcomplaint-white/story?id=125829965
Everyone's defending this asshole like crazy. Y'all are mental. Broke ass nation.
Black MTA workers kick white passangers off trains and call the cops if they're refusing to obey the rules - literally every day.
If a white guy has his feet on the seats, and an old black man or woman comes and gets the black MTA worker to step in - and the white guy STILL refuses to sit up properly - the MTA worker is put in the position of saying *"okay the rules don't apply to this one guy, you can refuse the rules, they're meaningless" * or getting physically involved (which they're not supposed to do), so the only resort if the passanger is still REFUSING the rules to the MTA worker's face is to call the cops.
They're low paid MTA workers, not bouncers at a KKK meeting. This shit goes down regularly this way, it's just most of the time a "celebrity" isn't involved. Some drunk asshole is.
Edit: Here's a white MTA worker dragging a white guy off a train. Beligerent customers are an everyday thing. That's how the public are. MTA worker punched in the face, after asking someone to get off the train.... MTA worker sucker-punched at random.
Maybe because it should've been a matter for whatever passes for transport authority or the conductor/inspector and not the police.
Being an asshole isn't a crime ya know...
The conductor was looking the other way, the old lady made the conductor intervene, Okeefe CONTINUED to refuse.
So it was the MTA dealing with it, and Okeefe CONTINUED to refuse. Continued his personal stouch with the lady.
Well, the rules apply to all MTA passangers. MTA trains serve thousands of people each day, the MTA worker wasn't picking him out. The conductor was leaving him alone until the old lady brought the conductor in, AND OKEEFE CONTINUED TO REFUSE.
So "Racist MTA" doesn't work as a theory. It doesn't fit the facts of what happened.
That’s what they’re saying. They’re saying that the police should need more than just the bare minimum investigation of a potential crime to remove you from transit. You’re saying that he was released as if the only two options were not taking him off the train and jailing him indefinitely.