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?"
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.