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?"
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’
Real question, is feet-on-the-seat something people are typically arrested for there?
They should be, no?
Why do you trust that article more than this one? Did you see his feet on the seat?
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
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.
Sure it sucks, but involving the police in someone having their feet on the seat? Way to overreact.
Pretty standard for disorderly passengers in the subway. Nothing really novel about this.
I’ve rode the subway for over 20 years and have not once ever seen the cops called for anything less than a fist fight.
There was a video about attempting to arrest someone eating a sandwich when it wasn’t allowed. You have to enforce the rules for people who refuse to stop after a warning otherwise there’s no point in having any rules at all.
It seems petty but it’s only petty by the person refusing to follow them
The conductor was being ignored, he controls what happens on his train.
Her comment of “you aren’t the minority anymore” starts to make some sense maybe.
Like I infer his refusal to take feet off seat and then claim persecution when consequences happen, are nothing to do with him being black minority being picked on. So she is inferring he is being treated just like anyone else.
But I have no way to verify that assumption
I feel like a crazy person reading all of your comments saying it’s justified to call the cops and arrest someone for having their feet on the seats.
Anti-social behaviour on this level should not have people reaching for the state violence button.
I’m not saying cops need to come, but a conductor or ship captain gets to make the rules and people have to follow them or get asked to leave, like he was. If nobody has to listen to travel provider authority then there is zero order. Imagine being on a plane and refusingbto buckle up…you get removed, because ifbyou can’t follow an easy rule you are going to be a bigger problem in flight
The plane thing makes sense because in turbulence that person’s body could injure others, but feet on the seat does not rise to that level.
The worst thing this giu should’ve been subjected to is some harsh comments from the other passengers.
I don’t know where you live but transit has rules, you cause issues by not following rules then the bus driver stops and waits for you to get off, or if you refuse then transit police come to remove you.
As somebody else mentioned now passengers have to sit in whatever shit, or piss, or gum, etc he stepped in on his travels.
I think what happened here seems harsh, but he might have been a belligerent asshole so was asked to be removed for passenger safety.
I hope somebody captures video so we have clarity.