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In the caption of the Instagram post, he wrote, "An old white woman got on the train and immediately pointed at me and told me to correct how I was sitting. I refused, so she went to the conductor and complained. The conductor called the police and stopped the train," he said.

O'Keefe also says in the caption that the friend of the woman who called the police had said to him, "You're not the minority anymore."

A separate video about the incident has been uploaded by the user, Nalae, on TikTok, where it has quickly gone viral, having been viewed over 160,000 times as of reporting.

They said I was disturbing the peace by not leaving the train. They pulled me off the train and arrested me without even talking to the Karen who reported the one black person on the train. On the platform, the police detained me and interrogated me. Only black folks stayed nearby and recorded the arrest. When I demanded a lawyer and reminded them they didn't even take a statement from the woman who complained they eventually released me. This country is growing more psycho by the day. What will you do about it?"

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[–] ArmchairAce1944@discuss.online 56 points 4 months ago (3 children)

So he was sitting improperly? They didn't say exactly why it was 'improper' to begin with?

[–] mcv@lemmy.zip 59 points 4 months ago

He did it while black. That's clearly an arrestable offense.

[–] BCsven@lemmy.ca 6 points 4 months ago

The article is purposely misleading.

From another article: The Bear’ writer booted from MTA train for refusing to take feet off seats — he blames ‘old white lady’

[–] bestboyfriendintheworld@sh.itjust.works -3 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Maybe he had his shoes on the seats and is now crying racism.

[–] m0darn@lemmy.ca 5 points 4 months ago (1 children)

If he had his feet up on another seat, and said "go fuck yourself" instead of "no" (which is a scenario compatible with the description). He still shouldn't have been arrested.

[–] AA5B@lemmy.world 3 points 4 months ago (2 children)

I disagree. If the conductor tells someone to stop being an asshole and they curse back, they’re belligerent and noncompliant, and it’s reasonable to have the police remove them from the train.

[–] prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 4 months ago

Remove from the train ≠ arrested

[–] m0darn@lemmy.ca 2 points 4 months ago (1 children)

I disagree. If the conductor tells someone to stop being an asshole and they curse back, they’re belligerent and noncompliant, and it’s reasonable to have the police remove them from the train.

Cool, but that's not disagreeing with what I said.

[–] AA5B@lemmy.world 1 points 4 months ago (1 children)

He still shouldn’t have been arrested.

it’s reasonable to have the police remove them from the train.

[–] m0darn@lemmy.ca 2 points 4 months ago

...If the conductor tells someone...