(NewsNation) — A former writer for “The Bear” was handcuffed on a train, saying that a woman complained about how he was sitting.
Alex O’Keefe posted the tense exchange he had with the Metro Transit Authority Police on Instagram.
“I was arrested on the @MTA train to Connecticut today, pulled off, handcuffed, and detained,” O’Keefe said. “An old white woman got on the train and immediately pointed at me and told me to correct how I was sitting.”
He added, “I refused, so she went to the conductor and complained. The conductor called the police and stopped the train.”
Authorities told ABC News that they responded to calls of a “disorderly passenger” on a train at Fordham Metro-North station in the Bronx when “a conductor reported a passenger occupying two seats had refused to remove his feet from one of the seats.”
O’Keefe, who is Black, is seen in the video pointing to the woman and saying, “You’re going to arrest the one Black dude on the train because this white woman said she didn’t like the way I was sitting on the train,” as officers try to place him in handcuffs.
Alex O’Keefe told to get off train: Police
Officers told O’Keefe to exit the train onto the platform so he could board another train, MTA police told ABC News in a statement.
“When he continued to refuse to exit, delaying service for several hundred other riders for six minutes, the passenger involved was handcuffed and removed from the train,” authorities said.
O’Keefe was issued a summons for disorderly conduct and was allowed to board another train, ABC News reports.
“The police told me to leave the train, I refused and asked what was I doing illegally,” O’Keefe said in his post. “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.”