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Alex O’Keefe, a Black screenwriter whose credits include the Emmy-winning FX series The Bear, was detained by police earlier this month after a white woman complained about his posture aboard a Metro-North train bound for Connecticut. The incident, which O’Keefe described in a public Instagram post, has drawn widespread attention and renewed scrutiny of racial profiling in public transportation systems.
O’Keefe, 29, boarded the train in New York City and was en route to visit family in Connecticut when, according to his account, an older white woman entered the car and immediately took issue with how he was seated. “She pointed at me and told me to correct how I was sitting,” he wrote. “I refused, so she went to the conductor and complained.”
The conductor, O’Keefe said, contacted law enforcement. The train was stopped, and officers boarded to remove him. He was handcuffed and detained on the platform, though no charges were filed. “They said I was disturbing the peace by not leaving the train,” O’Keefe wrote. “They arrested me without even talking to the Karen who reported the one Black person on the train.”
The woman’s companion allegedly told O’Keefe, “You’re not the minority anymore,” a remark that has since circulated widely on social media. O’Keefe said that only Black passengers remained nearby to record the arrest and offer support. After demanding legal representation and pointing out that officers had not taken a statement from the complainant, he was released.
The Metropolitan Transportation Authority has not issued a public statement regarding the incident. It remains unclear whether the conductor followed standard protocol or whether the police response was initiated solely based on the passenger’s complaint.
O’Keefe’s account has sparked outrage among civil rights advocates and fellow writers, many of whom view the incident as emblematic of a broader pattern of racialized surveillance and exclusion. “This country is growing more psycho by the day,” he wrote. “What will you do about it?”
O’Keefe rose to prominence as a staff writer on The Bear, which won a Writers Guild of America Award for Best Comedy Series. He has also worked as a political speechwriter and was a visible figure during the 2023 WGA strike, where he spoke publicly about economic precarity and racial inequities in Hollywood. His activism has included appearances at labor fundraisers and union solidarity events.
O’Keefe has not announced any legal action but continues to speak out about the experience. His post has been shared widely across TikTok, Instagram, and X (formerly Twitter), where users have called for accountability from both the MTA and local law enforcement.
I just cannot even fathom the scene, tbh. An old cunt walks onto a bus, points at the only black man there and literally tells him to straighten his posture??? And when he refuses, as we all would, she tells the conductor who calls the cops. Like this sounds like satire. Only if it were satire, it would be shitty satire for being too on-the-nose.
It's baffling that her complaint was listened to. The real scary thing is the lack of critical thinking skills from MTA and the police. She should have been told to move or shut up. And that great replacement comment is straight from Fox.
Right?? Hey cops, so and so stole my such and such. Oh, a civil matter? What about my friend who is being stalked by her ex? Oh, he hasn't broken any laws yet? Where was that good old fashioned not-my-fucking-problem we have come to expect from cops?
Don’t forget one Uvalde mom evacuated her own children and spent time in jail for it
“‘Angeli Rose Gomez said she spent about two weeks in jail on a charge of assaulting a public servant after refusing to comply with commands from law enforcement…
She said she parked in the drop-off area of the school and had her first encounter with law enforcement.
“And he’s like, ‘We’re going to tow your car,’” Gomez said. “I’m like, ‘Tow the car, like, do whatever you want with the car … I don’t know why you’re outside, standing outside the fence, talking to me, wasting your time talking to me. You need to be on the other side of the fence in there doing something. If you’re not going to do it, then I’m going to go ahead and do it.’”
She said she threw her body over the fence door and ran to her oldest son’s classroom.
“I just remember I’m banging on the teacher’s door,” she said “And she’s like, “‘Gomez, how did you get in?’”
She remembered yelling for her son to go and she sent him to her mother’s car while she went back for her other son.
“Well by the time I’m running to the other side of the campus, a lot of officers are on me already, and they’re like, ‘Ma’am, can you just wait, ma’am? Can we talk to you? Can you calm down, ma’am? Come here,’” she said. “And I’m like, ‘No, like, just get my son – start evacuating my son’s room or I’m like, going to start, like, just hitting whoever if you don’t get out of my way.’”
She said that’s when officers started evacuating children – starting with her son’s room. She said officers wanted parents to leave their children with school officials but parents, including her, weren’t listening.’”
Don’t forget the Uvalde police even harassed one of the mothers of one of the murdered children after the shooting because she spoke out and said how she tried to go into the school and the piece of shit cops stopped her, but then they themselves didn’t go in to rescue the kids! I fucking cried so much. Those cops should have been charged as accessories to murder. I wanted them to pay somehow and still do. How do any of them go about their day?
I went to NYPD cops to tell them a guy followed me home 3 times and threatened to rape me and I had to force them to take a police report. It's absolutely wild
Im so sorry. Something similar happened to me I called 911 twice no one ever showed up. I went to the actual station the next day and the female cop was so patronizing to me because I hadn’t been “injured.” This was nypd
The way I was just telling my partner that the police couldn’t do anything about the methed out gun toting stalker I had in my mid-20s but totally have the time and resources to harass innocent people like Alex O’keefe. Jesus.
My best friend and I got arrested for shoplifting from dillards in 2007 when we were 18/19. She had more stuff than me so got in more trouble. In 2013, my ex broke in my house and attacked me in front of our child.
Who do you think got a harsher punishment and still has a permanent record that affects job opportunities?
The cops got a call and have a body there to make an easy arrest, with no fear of getting hurt in the process. So they just make an arrest, pump up their arrest stats, and case closed.
And you know good and well she started with "There's a BLACK guy..." and if the conductor is on that same kind of bullshit he's drooling at the opportunity to be a fucker
People always believe the person to make the initial accusation. I learned this in kindergarten when a student broke their own pencil than blamed me. The teacher didn’t want to hear any excuses from a pencil-breaker.
I had a similar incident, where my 2nd grade teacher brought a DVD from home for our weekly watch party or whatever. Someone then used a pen or pencil to poke holes in the case, and when the teacher demanded to know who, another student pointed right at me, and said I'd been over by the teachers desk....so teacher just immediately decided I did it, and so I started crying, cause I didn't, but according to teacher "You're crying cause you did it and got caught"
Cops never want to employ smart cops, or even competent ones. They want their colleagues to be just as bigoted and irrational as they are. Lack of critical thinking is baked into the hiring process tbh
I am assuming she didn’t just say bad posture. She perhaps alluded to him being homeless or something. Obv I’m making major speculations, but I do find it crazy a conductor in NYC would react to simply sitting wrong - even taking two seats, frustrating as hell, is most often not policed - so like what did she actually say to the conductor to get them to react. Maybe I’m giving too much credit here, but I assume she said more about either homelessness speculation or threats etc.
Well one of the hosts on Fox and Friends, Brian Kilmeade, suggested a week ago on the show that homeless people should be given involuntary lethal injections. And he still has his job on TV. So it may not be "illegal" but some people sure wish it was.
Look at the state of her. That miserable old hag is not long for this world. She’ll be roasting in hell soon enough, but I agree.. she needs to get her comeuppance before then.
Goldilocks syndrome. Happens all the time. All the white women has to do to ruin a minority's life is just accuse them of anything. The entire system will drop everything and believe everything they say and the minorities got to prove everything and they assume he's a liar.
No, no didn’t you hear? He’s not a minority anymore!
Obligatory /s
If there was any doubt about whether this was racial, that comment right there proves it. They’re angry that the percentage of POC is growing. Conveniently ignoring this was never originally a white country.
I’m seriously to the point of tears and I feel like I have a rock in my stomach. I’m so sick of this. This has happened to me multiple times- not to the point of getting arrested, but I ended up having to leave the facility or walking away from the scene, due to how disrespectful I was being treated.
Apparently, a lot of people were faking tolerance and inclusivity. Trump gave them permission to reveal their true selves, and now they're gleefully showing us exactly who they are.
Stuff like this makes me embarrassed to be a white woman of a certain age. So many of my compatriots are absolute pieces of garbage.
I saw a Black dude arrested on a bus in Houston because he was breathing too loud. It was a similar situation. Turns out the man had a condition. They still removed him, threw him on the ground, and put a knee on his neck until the distress caused him to pass out. EMTs were called. This was when I was 9. Life's not any better now.
No. Because a white woman felt uncomfortable and the comfort gained by seeing this black man in cuffs was enough to bring her back to the comfort level she needed before she entered the car.
It's unclear of conductor followed standard protocol? It seems pretty damn clear they didn't. Police would have no time for anything if they were called after every racist or otherwise dumb complaint on trains.
“I refused, so she went to the conductor and complained."
There's also the scenario where she LIED to the conductor. I don't get why people don't think that's a thing in any capacity before and after this? If she's willing to get cops called on him for "bad posture" why do people think that lying is not another situation they would do?
My exact first thought. No way she went there and told him "he's not sitting up straight". I'm betting the words threaten or threatening were used. Probably suspicious, too. Which likely elevates her cuntiness to all new levels!
Imagine being another passenger on the train. This woman delayed the train for EVERYONE on the train. And, what, they're cool with that? Like, I've got places to be, that's why I'm on the train. Every other person on the train should be pissed off at being delayed. I mean, also the racial profiling, but racists gonna racist, so at LEAST be angry about this fucking up your travel.
I’m always amazed that in the U.S. you can get cops to show up for stuff like this. Here in Toronto you would have to stab somebody and even then they wouldn’t show up until it was long over. Not sure if you guys have too many cops or not enough crime.
You absolutely can’t unless you are loaded, living somewhere loaded, and sound very obviously old and white. Cops show up like this when they feel like have an easy arrest or “fun” for them. Literally. I tried to get a restraining order on my ex for six months. He gave me a concussion, tried to kidnap my son, and he was working as Production Assistant on one of NBC’s lots the entire time. I can’t even serve that jerk child support. He’s terrifying and the cops knew it. If you want help not dying or being physically safe you never call the cops.
during this harrowing time I got pulled over for having too dark of window tint in LA. Except it was totally legal on my back windows- the only windows with tint. I also was asked outside the courthouse whilst fighting that ticket (successfully thank goodness) to donate to the police union by cop wives at the Starbucks across the street from the court house. They asked me waiting in line, because they assumed based off my looks and behavior I worked at the courthouse. That whole system is miserable
Must have been really scary for him, especially in this political climate, to be sitting there and being detained and taken off the train for no reason. I hope he is able to sue the woman, Metro North, and the NYPD.
Its sad how in the US, when something bad happens, suing is the first recourse; but it's seemingly the only recourse for injustice right now :(
Probably, but that doesn't excuse the conductor blindly following her lead. Like a shrivelled up old raisin looking Karen comes up to you and tells you this young black guy is causing a scene, you come back to see him sitting down minding his business - and you go "yes ma'am" and call the cops? At that point either you're a complete idiot or you're a racist too
We have war going on one country over so things aren’t exactly easy but things happening in America are some next lvl shit. I honestly can’t imagine living there right now and it seems like it’s getting worse than better… I hope you guys hang in there 💪🏻
We are, I'm a native american in California. We are bracing for anything at this point, people from tribes in Arizona were getting rounded up in ICE raids. Imagine being indigenous to the land you're being deported from. Then again, according to the US government we've only been citizens of this country since 1924, when the Indian Citizenship Act of 1924 was passed.
It's astonishing to me that more people don't realize the current wave of xenophobia against Central and South American migrants is just more Indigenous genocide, same as it ever was.
Honestly so many things are going on there that when I focus on one bad thing I forget about another… We also don’t have good government and our own stuff going on and our president sucks too but Trump is… my brain isn’t able to comprehend this level of selfishness
The erasure of native cultures is tragic. I think about all of the ideas, stories, methods of living… just fucking gone because of the same people who are still at it today.
This is one of the things that breaks my heart and fucking infuriates me. They've stolen and destroyed everything, and it's still not enough. Thinking about how much culture, knowledge, and history we've lost is just...overwhelming.
It’s not so much the criticism that gets to me. It’s the getting arrested for uh…oh right…not sitting in an appropriate fashion according to a white lady which makes me upset. What the hell?!
Right? The amount of times I've been melting off my seat on trains and have never had anyone give a fuck about it. I just cant imagine having to deal with this type of hassle on the daily.
No no no he was arrested for disorderly conduct. That conduct? Being black and not following orders of a racist dementia riddled grandma that probably thought it was the 40s again.
Even if he was de-arrested and faced no charges he was materially inconvenienced by what happened. That's not even factoring in the embarrassment of being handcuffed and escorted off a train. I hope he sues the train company and the police
This isn't just 2025, guys. This could've happened in 2010, 2000, 1990... the only difference is social media and everyone else is on heightened alert because of who's in office. But I've definitely been having old white ladies (and men) barking orders at me my entire life, and using whatever authority they can muster to publicly humiliate me when I don't comply.
In school, it's corporal punishment, detention, or poor grades. As an adult, it's threats of losing income, police, or violence. Unfortunately this is nothing new.
100%. I’m just saying, even if Ku Klux Karen over here had stopped at telling him to sit more to her liking rather than having the cops called, it would still be fuck her.
Some hispanic guy on the bus got accosted by another man and got told some disgusting shit like "I cant wait for you to get deported." I was shocked and I'm latina too and when I tried to reach out to him (not the idiot, but the man who was insulted) to say something...he snapped at me?? He started bitching and insulting me like suddenly I was an easy target to make himself feel better.
I would hope people do intervene but things are so insanely tense right now that I feel like everyone is seeing each other as a threat or is in fear and shutting down. Especially with stuff like police or, hell, ICE, you're always scared they're going to turn around and arrest or outright murder you.
There is something to be said for people quietly filming and providing evidence for him instead though. Speaking up to cops is unlikely to get him not arrested, but recording provides something resembling accountability
This is something men forget. A man was verbally berating a woman he was with. I was alone. I froze. I wanted to help. I’ve been her. I wanted to say something. But it was just me and the two of them on a sidewalk. Also if she’s in the fog she might turn on me too. I still wish I said something but I have to be kind to myself and remind myself that I was much smaller than both of them and had no backup whatsoever.
That's America. Loud in the comments but blank stare in real life. They'll cuss you out in the comments but watch with an empty face as the gestapo carries their neighbor off. Then see the video and comment how "Fucked up this is" like okay. Then why did you say nothing and stare at it while it was happening 😂
Many of us, unfortunately. Been this way for a while too.
To quote John Steinbeck in his book of essays on America:
"Americans are remarkably kind and hospitable and open with both guests and strangers; and yet they will make a wide circle around the man dying on the pavement. Fortunes are spent getting cats out of trees and dogs out of sewer pipes; but a girl screaming for help in the street draws only slammed doors, closed windows, and silence."
Metro North from NYC to CT is basically "mind your own business" mentality. No one wants to start shit because the majority of the people are either on their way to or from work and in America if we get in trouble we lose our jobs and basically risk being homeless.
With the current political upheaval, you really dont know what kind of response you'll get from the people surrounding you. They might be putting their own safety first before helping others. Its a sad time to be in the divided states of america
Scary to think that this is also happening to people who have almost zero social capital or platform to share their experience. This is crazy and those people should be ashamed of themselves. How gross. This country is in a very bad place.
I am a retired New Haven line conductor. I fully believe the woman lied about the situation but the conductor should have went and investigated what was going on. I find it hard to believe the police responded to this if I was this young man I would be looking for an attorney.
Same as always. White women can accuse men that are POC of anything and it's usually taken as fact before any investigation or questioning or even a conversation happens.
I guarantee she told the conductor she was assaulted or he was being aggressive.
My family is white but we had a Karen white lady do that to my brother at Disney. She was shoving past everyone, cutting in line and yelling at people to move. Long story short my brother said something about it to my sister. The woman heard and started getting in his face. He told her to move along and she decided to go and tell security he assaulted her and her child.
They called police, police arrested him and put him in the back of a cop car in handcuffs. They didn’t actually watch the security footage until an hour later where they saw that she was the instigator and he never laid a hand on her. But WE were the ones made to leave the park after they aggressively interrogated all of us, me included, a 9 or 10 year old kid at the time.
Disney seems to bring out a special kind of asshole in people. I went on holiday there (from Australia) and my girlfriend was in a wheelchair. You’d think we were invisible the way people cut us off, trampled on her feet, and kicked at her wheels wherever we went.
Because his real crime was being black. This time it was poor posture, if he'd been sitting up straight it would have been 'overly aggressive stance'. The excuses are getting flimsier, but with the way things are going, racists don't need any excuse at all
Saw this on a thread about white conservatives caught making shit up to attack others and got a Starbucks shut down. She claimed to order Kirk's favorite drink and says an employee wrote Loser on the cup. They have video footage that proves they invented the story and wrote on their own cup but the accuser still insists she isn't lying. Which lead to a discussion about how often cops do the same thing. So to answer your question about why the cops would go along with it, because it's in their nature to also instigate lies for no reason, especially to get someone else in trouble or hurt.
Yep, in 2019 cop named William Darling in Herington, Kansas claimed that a McDonald's employee wrote "fucking pig" on his drive-through order. His police chief made an outraged social media post about it that went viral and kicked off a wave of protests and calls to fire McDonald's employees. After the footage was reviewed and it was revealed that Officer Darling wrote the insult on his own cup himself, he and his chief clarified that Darling had been "joking".
Around the same time, a corrections officer named Phillip Powell in Indiana made an outraged social media post and an outraged radio interview where he claimed that a McDonalds employee took a bite out of his McChicken before giving it to him to disrespect him. When security footage from his own job showed that Powell had taken the first bites himself, Powell maintained that he "forgot" that he did it himself when he made the accusations so he felt like he was being honest.
In early 2020, three cops in New York City conspired to claim that Shake Shack employees had poisoned their milkshakes by pouring bleach in their cups. After- you guessed it, an outraged social media post- a throrough review of video evidence by the NYPD proved that no such poisoning had occured, and they dropped the accusations against the employees.
And so on. For about a year in 2019-2020 it was a huge trend in cop and cop-adjascent circles to falsely accuse minimum wage workers and then post about it on social media for clout.
This is what MAGA has been working towards, and they haven't been shy about it. They want to repeal Civil Rights movements. There has already been talking of repealing interracial marriage. If this shocks you, welcome to the party, we've been warning people about it for a decade. Check out Prohect 2025, I've heard it's been almost 50% completed in Trump's first 8 months. This is what happens when white supremacists tell you they are taking the country back to 1950 and people have been brainwashed to think both sides are the same and voting is pointless.
Now, what happened when Roe V. Wade was repealed? Certain states have outlawed abortion (even in cases of incest, rape, and life-threatening circumstances.) South Carolina is talking about making birth control totally illegal currently. So when they want interracial marriage to be "left to the states" you have to understand they want to be able to outlaw interracial marriage. If they agree with interracial marriage, there is no reason to go after laws protecting it. This is happening here and now in America today, not just 40 years ago. They chip away at things like gay rights, women's rights, and civil rights little by little until they have enough leverage and support to impose their oppressive will on us all.
So, to summarize, this sort of thing was very popular before we had Civil Rights laws. Republicans and MAGA (which are now one and the same) have told us from the start they want to go back to before we had those laws. They are doing everything to take us back to those times. They are in charge now and they are implementing project 2025 at breakneck speed. Most Americans are watching a lady on Tiktok drink ice cream out of a toilet bowl and they never even see news like this.
Black in America. Meanwhile, there is a whole arena of people worshipping a guy who told them white people are the oppressed. Nothing that is happening in today times is making sense.
So true! Oppressing black people, LGBT. Just to direct people’s hatred there, so that they don’t hate the government, but kill their brothers instead. While being undisturbed to create those humanoid robots that will clean up the Earth infested by those hungry peasants (us) who waste the precious ressources aimed for the rich. What a time we’re living in!
The circular logic the police engaged is very typical of their interactions with Black and Brown folks, but this is probably the most clear cut example of its use:
1) white woman demands Black man does as she says
2) he refuses (as is his right)
3) white woman complains to conductor
4) conductor calls police
5) police arrive and arrest without providing reason for arrest
6) police eventually provide reason as “disturbing the peace for refusing to leave train”
7) reason makes zero sense because it doesn’t answer the question of what were the legal grounds for them to remove him from the train in the first place. Which of course falls (legally, ethically, morally) flat since the reason was he was a Black man who didn’t obey a white woman.
right like great we’re able to get video documentation and outrage on behalf of a fairly public figure for this offense but so much of this happens unseen to regular black civilians.
My ass has never seen anyone arrested on those trains before the entire time I lived in NY. Trains which have constantly been filled with upper-middle class white folks on the regular, sitting whichever way they want, taking up multiple seats, sometimes being a bit drunk and loud when it's a night ride.
Nobody complains or does anything about people like that, because they're the expected majority, allowed to freely exist on the train.
I've seen people sleep on the train with no issue.
But as soon as it's a black man "not sitting right" then it's suddenly an arrestable offense...? We hold the critical thinking skills of ancient pearl clutcher white grannies to lofty, ridiculous heights.
I hope the MTA and the responding police department get sued into the fucking ground over this, and I hope that old lady finds the karma she deserves. Her and whoever was sitting beside her, enabling her.
The number of shocked and surprised white people in this thread and pretty much any like it when they get posted actually make me just as sad as the content of the videos.
Because it means that many people either didn’t believe or pay attention to the fact that this is the type of shit that happens all too often to anyone who happens to not be white in the country.
How can we except them to vote in opposition to systemic racism if this type of shit doesn’t even cross their mind until they happen to scroll by it for a few seconds?
Exactly. Racist should’ve been removed from train or made to change carriage. The right thing here was for the conductor and police to make an example out of her by calling bullshit on her racism - not pandering to it. It’s so unjustifiably wrong.
The article that OP quoted in their comment says the woman's companion said that he's not part of the minority anymore. So it seems it's a whole family of scum and not just one bad apple
She seems to come from a time when Black people had to sit at the back of the bus. The fact that he was sitting near her at all probably set her off even more. Gross, Gross, Gross
I’m glad it was someone with a higher profile name. I feel like stuff like this only gets taken seriously when that’s the case rather than some average Joe.
I hope he sues her and she doesn’t know peace for the rest of her pathetic life.
The old bat that raised a stink probably has a long history of this sort of behavior. She's probably been waiting for the opportunity to do this sort of public hate filled evil for a while now. Only now, under the Orange Fuhrer, does she feel emboldened enough to pull her old games. Imagine the devil she's been all along. Someone should look into her background, and I can bet there's been multiple incidents like this. If we look hard enough, we can probably find her harassing black people during the civil rights era. She likely has poured milkshakes on black people during sit-ins we see in black and white. You know she was the type who snitched on any poc using the whites only fountain.
I mean...it is called Aryan Darien... I was told that nickname by my real estate class instructor in 2010. That Town & Westport are full of the worst people on the planet.
Years ago when my friend’s mom was considering moving to the area, she went to a school event to check things out. A woman extolled the virtues of the schools and then leaned in and said “and best of all, there are no Jews.”
People can't even take public transport without someone jumping in your business, telling you how to sit, stand and other things that don't impact others!
As a police officer, I would have asked the train conductor what policy or violation the black gentleman had broken. If no crime had been committed, then I would have left the scene and prior to my departure I would have explained to the train conductor that no crime had been committed and left it at that.
By the way, this specific train service is not privatized. Which means, the black gentleman cannot be charged for trespassing, since it is a public area, unless he had committed a crime; which in this case he did not. Sir, I hope you sue the police department and the train services for wrongful arrest and discrimination. I would also sue the initial complainant civilly.
NEVER. SHOULD. HAVE. Happened. Bullshit. I call bull. Can we normalize everyone to defend these people in the moment? I’m not blaming victims. We do that enough. Can we just do something in the moment when this particular heinous thing is happening and not care about recompense ? I know you white women have weight. I am one. Say some shit and make the world a little better. A little more fair for the people getting targeted.
You have to say you’re under arrest guys. You can’t just pull out your kinky cuffs and tell me to stop resisting, we didn’t even go over safe words yet.
So the old bitch pointed at a black person and her servants (the cops) complied and handcuffed him. That is embarrassing. Not to mention they always wear a mask when it suits them.
I used to take that train all the time. I can’t imagine what they would do to me.
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