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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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[–] Etterra@discuss.online 12 points 1 day ago

This is what happens when a malignant narcissist emboldens abd enables the racist sociopaths.

[–] lorski@sopuli.xyz 13 points 1 day ago

whoever wrote the article sucks

[–] BackgrndNoize@lemmy.world 58 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Most Americans don't realize just how deeply racist some people are in this country, I've seen similar behavior before from white women, towards a black kid who was just hanging around in a library, and now these shitty people feel even more emboldened.

[–] buddascrayon@lemmy.world 21 points 2 days ago (2 children)

The "You're not the minority anymore" part was what made me do a double take. The level of delusion these people engage in is absolutely insane.

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[–] BCsven@lemmy.ca 28 points 2 days ago (3 children)

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’

[–] Dragonstaff@leminal.space 3 points 1 day ago

Why do you trust that article more than this one? Did you see his feet on the seat?

[–] lovely_reader@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Real question, is feet-on-the-seat something people are typically arrested for there?

[–] BCsven@lemmy.ca 1 points 4 hours ago

I can't say I have been on transit for that one, but transit police did get called about a guy on the bus talking to passengers and making eye contact. He said he was just a christian trying to be friendly, but due to it being abnormal passengers complained, maybe assuming he was mentally ill. That's The world we live in LOL

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[–] mrgoosmoos@lemmy.ca 22 points 2 days ago (7 children)

lmfao jesus the misleadingness of it

get your fucking feet off the seat or get off the train

if they leave that out, I trust nothing they said about how the rest of it went

[–] Ileftreddit@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago

I’ve personally seen a fully nude homeless man sleeping stretched out on a 6 train’s seats, his garbage bag full of belongings strewn about the car. He smelled so bad there was no one else in the train car. The cops were not called. Or if they were they didn’t show up at any of the stations we passed.

[–] MBech@feddit.dk 31 points 2 days ago (4 children)

Sure it sucks, but involving the police in someone having their feet on the seat? Way to overreact.

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[–] athairmor@lemmy.world 267 points 2 days ago (7 children)

"You're not the minority anymore."

Jesus fucking Christ.

This says so much. They think “minority” means a person who gets special treatment. That’s how fucking deluded they’ve become.

[–] grrgyle@slrpnk.net 99 points 2 days ago (5 children)

That... explains so much. Racists are fucking jealous that black people get to be oppressed??? Is it like some martyrdom by proxy fuckedupedness?

[–] faythofdragons@slrpnk.net 62 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (7 children)

Sorta. I was raised with this bullshit, so I can see the distortion of reality. I'm still unpacking all this in therapy myself, because it's a whole worldview.

First off, they're woefully uneducated about history. My high school in Oklahoma briefly touched on the Civil Rights Movement and tried to pass it off as something that was over and done. Rosa Parks got arrested, the white people were shocked that this could happen, they had a sit-in party at a milkshake stand (they didn't talk about any of the pushback that got), MLK did his speech and now everything is fine for black people, no more institutional racism, literally being taught in schools. Now, combine that with your own needs not being met, and the talking heads/politicans say that you're not getting the aid you need because it's going towards making hurt feelings better. There's only so much money in the coffers, and you gotta be really hard up if you're white, but it's easy to get if you're black.

There's also a heavy religious framing about ancestral guilt. Like, if God can make life suck for everybody because Eve ate an apple, and libs are trying to play god, it follows to reason they'd want to make your life suck for the sins of your great-great-great grandparents. It's never outright stated, but if you listen to enough sermons, the puzzle fills in. Like, again, they think the civil rights movement fixed everything, so they think white people have atoned for their transgressions, but the pastor says libs are in consort with satan and can't forgive like jesus, so that's why they want white people to suffer.

Edit: I want to make it clear that I do not personally believe any of that, it's just what I was taught as a kid.

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[–] Blackmist@feddit.uk 86 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Sitting? While black? That's a paddlin'.

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[–] Amberskin@europe.pub 48 points 2 days ago (3 children)

This is just stupid. And I mean, the arrest. You Americans seem to be subject to arrest for the stupidest things.

Putting your feet on a seat is gross. The guy should have complied with the indication to put them down. Non compliance should have resulted in -at most- a fine. This is what would had happened in my country, and my guess, in the majority of places in the world.

[–] Entertainmeonly@lemmy.blahaj.zone 30 points 2 days ago (5 children)

Laws are written in ways they can be used at the discretion of the power. Their discretion, their prerogative, their biase, their bigotry. All laws written to apply only when the power chooses are not law, but privilege.

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[–] ArmchairAce1944@discuss.online 55 points 2 days ago (9 children)

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

[–] mcv@lemmy.zip 58 points 2 days ago

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

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Conveniently, the officer body cam footage is “not available”. Absolutely insane they are making it sound like it’s his fault the train is delayed.

[–] kadaverin0@lemmy.dbzer0.com 24 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Immediately pointed to me and told me to correct how I was sitting.

Old white women try to remember it's not 1952 challenge (IMPOSSIBLE)

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[–] iamdefinitelyoverthirteen@lemmy.world 92 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I don't like the headline. He has a name, you know, and it's Alex O'keefe.

[–] Dnb@lemmy.dbzer0.com 73 points 2 days ago (3 children)

The headline makes it sound like he did something wrong too. Instead he was harassed because of a Karen

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[–] billwashere@lemmy.world 204 points 3 days ago (72 children)

I mean what the actual fuck?!? If this is only half as egregious as this is being portrayed I wish I had been there. I would have told that old white Karen to shut the fuck up. And I don’t even know who this dude is. And I’m an old white dude.

[–] Xaphanos@lemmy.world 192 points 3 days ago (10 children)

Us old white dudes have a responsibility to get involved in these events.

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[–] RandomlyGeneratedName@lemmy.world 96 points 2 days ago (22 children)

I’m sick of the police getting involved and actually acting when no explicit law has been violated. If a law isn’t violated, they should never ever put their hands on a citizen in any way. Detaining someone without actually arresting them should result in immediate firing of the police. If you can’t press charges, you shouldn’t act.

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[–] TankovayaDiviziya@lemmy.world 113 points 2 days ago (3 children)

"You're not the minority anymore."

It's a code for "you're in Trump America, now."

[–] grrgyle@slrpnk.net 95 points 2 days ago

It also makes 0 sense while still sounding racist, so definitely trumpian

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[–] iAvicenna@lemmy.world 32 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

Hope he finds that woman, conductor and police chief and sues their ass (like any good it will do, but at least the internet can make a public example of her).

[–] DarkSideOfTheMoon@lemmy.world 77 points 2 days ago (6 children)

Luckily he is American. If he was a legal migrant having been booked would be considered a visa offense and he could be sent to a concentration camp.

[–] SinAdjetivos@lemmy.world 37 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

Luckily he is ~~American~~ famous.

The usual story here for Americans is that they get arrested for resisting arrest and assulting a police officer and then get sentences to 10+ years in the local gulag.

Immigrants instead get sent to the camps for deportation.

He's well enough known, there were enough cameras and he's media/white american savvy enough to avoid the worst outcomes.

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[–] ChaoticEntropy@feddit.uk 134 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (8 children)

The conductor called the police and stopped the train," he said.

Well there's your problem, the conductor should have told this woman to do one. Let's say that he had his feet up on a seat, or whatever, in what world do you stop the train service entirely for that.

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[–] yarr@feddit.nl 15 points 2 days ago (9 children)

How does one sit "offensively" on a train? All the coverage of this seems to just skip over that. Was he sitting with no pants? Laying across 3 seats? This is a novel one for me.

[–] BCsven@lemmy.ca 14 points 2 days ago (3 children)

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’

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[–] neuromorph@lemmy.world 8 points 2 days ago (1 children)

So who is the minority now? And what flex does she think that means?

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