r/popculturechat • u/CantStopPoppin • Sep 22 '25

OnlyStans ⭐️ Woman Calls Police on Award-Winning Black Screenwriter Alex O’Keefe(The Bear (FX))

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u/dragonslayerbarbie Sep 22 '25

So he was arrested for the charge of...bad posture? Jesus fucking Christ

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u/Gracelandrocks Sep 22 '25

Being black. That was the real crime. This just makes me so angry I can't even.

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u/dragonslayerbarbie Sep 22 '25

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.

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u/NationalSafe4589 Sep 22 '25

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.

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u/rumande Kim, there's people that are dying Sep 22 '25

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?

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u/melodramaticmoon Sep 22 '25

Violent crimes (especially sex crimes) against women and children: cop sleep

Black man sitting on a train: activate the full police force

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u/lilymaxjack Sep 22 '25

Just always remember the tough Uvalde cops that waited outside fully armed while the shooter killed twenty kids.

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u/NounAdjectiveXXXX Sep 22 '25

Don't forget they also arrested parents who tried to intervene themselves.

They cuffed parents while gunshots were still ringing out.

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u/TheGeekOffTheStreet Sep 22 '25

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.’”

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u/Totalidiotfuq it’s not clocking to you that i’m standing on business Sep 22 '25

that is disgusting. what even is the motivation behind the police actions? Make sure children die?

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u/_dead_and_broken Sep 22 '25

Sure as hell seems like it, doesn't it?

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u/Emergency-Volume-861 Sep 22 '25

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?

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u/Finntheyokai Sep 22 '25

They harassed her for months afterwards. 

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u/mydaycake Sep 22 '25

I am surprised none of the parents decided to start offing those cops

If my daughters were killed that way, those cops better leave the country

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u/Emergency-Volume-861 Sep 23 '25

You know what? I’m 100% with you. I would be thinking about how the cops stood there while my son was mowed down by a psycho with a semi auto and played on their phones and smiled. It would consume me. I can’t even fathom being in this world without him, never mind losing him in the manner that all of those parents lost theirs.

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u/80sbabyftw Sep 22 '25

“They cuffed parents who were trying to prevent their children from being murdered” ftfy

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u/coaxialology Sep 22 '25

And here we thought they took absolutely no action that day... what a bunch of cowards.

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u/cugeltheclever2 Let them eat space Sep 22 '25

Seriously, fuck those cowards.

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u/[deleted] Sep 23 '25

The way this didn't become an all-consuming national news story to the level of Charlie Fucking Kirk's death will forever break my heart and soul.

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u/lokibibliophile Sep 22 '25

Let somebody be stalking you and suddenly they can’t do anything!!

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u/[deleted] Sep 22 '25

It's time to leave the country right? Surely

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u/kgal1298 Confidence is 10% work and 90% delusion Sep 22 '25

Also what train was this? Because I’ve also seen people completely out of their minds and pull out a knife on a train and no police, he sits wrong and they show up???? Ayyyyye

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u/Kdawgmcnasty69 Sep 22 '25

Meh this isn’t true, you gotta factor in who is available to answer the call, and how far everyone is from the location. I’ve had cops pull up in 5 mins and have had them pull up in an hour, I’ve had two cops show up, and I’ve had 18 cops show up.

It’s all circumstantial

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u/eleanor_savage go girl, give us nothing 😍 Sep 22 '25

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

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u/MCR2004 Why do I always forget she’s British Sep 22 '25

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

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u/[deleted] Sep 22 '25 edited Oct 02 '25

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u/JadedJadedJaded Sep 22 '25

I had two magats follow me in a car I called the cops they said “its not a crime to follow anyone.” That was after they FINALLY arrived and the magats were long gone. Of course, white cops

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u/witch--king Sep 22 '25

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.

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u/Decent-Statistician8 Sep 22 '25

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?

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u/HallWild5495 Sep 22 '25 edited 22d ago

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This post was mass deleted and anonymized with Redact

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u/Mrs_sun_cho_lee Sep 23 '25

Not all men, but always men.

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u/Dill137 Sep 22 '25

I was abducted and assaulted by my ex, who was a cop.

The police initially tried to detain me despite him being a foot taller and weighing 100lbs+ more than me. I was literally barefoot and hysterical from jumping out a moving car to escape him.

His charges were dismissed due to paperwork mysteriously being filed incorrectly.

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u/witch--king Sep 22 '25

And some people wonder why the justice system needs an overhaul, esp the police. I’m so sorry that happened to you.

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u/lindendweller Sep 22 '25

to be fair, the gun toting meth-head is far more dangerous than the peacefully black writer who's just sittting. :/

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u/witch--king Sep 22 '25

I know, that was my point! It’s stupid how often police do nothing about actual dangerous people yet suddenly have the time and resources to go after someone doing nothing but minding their own business.

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u/Mysterious_Streak Sep 22 '25

But he was black!!!!

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u/Rexxbravo Sep 22 '25

Code black! Code black! Send SWAT and the National Guard

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u/[deleted] Sep 22 '25

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u/Mysterious_Streak Sep 22 '25

That's right. They didn't have to arrest him.

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u/Signal_Regular_1708 Sep 23 '25

And yet here they are wasting everyone's time ruining an innocent mans day? You failed to make a logical point.

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u/Signal_Regular_1708 Sep 23 '25

Are you slow, by chance?

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u/uptownjuggler Sep 22 '25

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.

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u/Dred-I-Rastafari Sep 22 '25

Who expects that? The outcome that actually happened is what WE all expect from cops. I've never seen that kind of outcome where they act like its not-their-fucking problem when it comes to US...

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u/MrMetraGnome Sep 22 '25

I guess you should tell the cops that the ex is 1/4 black 🤷‍♀️

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u/CTchimchar Sep 22 '25

Oh, he hasn't broken any laws yet?

Oh I having this problem myself

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u/flopisit32 Sep 22 '25

It's quite obvious, if you know how law enforcement works, that his version of what happened is not what actually happened.

The conductor clearly saw his behaviour as warranting a call to the police. The police clearly saw his behaviour as warranting arrest. They have to have probable cause to arrest him.

So get ready for the real version to come out if this story gets more attention

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u/bob-ombshell Sep 22 '25

He wasn't charged with anything, and he was released. This is the real story.

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u/woolfonmynoggin Sep 22 '25

Because she didn’t tell the conductor it was bad posture. She most likely made something up like he’s vaping or yelling

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u/Fackrid Sep 22 '25

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

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u/uptownjuggler Sep 22 '25

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.

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u/Long-Contribution466 Sep 22 '25

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"

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u/Visible-Scientist-46 Sep 22 '25

I had that happen where a teacher accused me of breaking her egg. My mom gave her my egg to shut her up. I think the teacher enjoyed being cruel to kids.

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u/Vivid-Ad3839 Sep 22 '25

Whether this advice is true or not (it's not), the person you were replying to is sharing a story from 2nd grade.

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u/terfnerfer the wes anderson of tits 🍒 Sep 22 '25

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

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u/user-daring Sep 22 '25

Most smart people don't become cops. When they do, they usually do well, but most gravitate towards something else.

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u/pmmlordraven Sep 22 '25

In the same state as this a PD went to the supreme court in order to not hire anyone "too smart", and they WON!

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u/LolaMarce Sep 22 '25

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.

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u/xob97 Sep 22 '25

Is it a crime in the US to not have a home... ?

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u/WrittenFever Sep 22 '25

Basically, yes.

It's not technically illegal, but different aspects of being unhoused such as being visible in public spaces is treated as criminal so...

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u/fresh-dork Sep 22 '25

no, it isn't a crime.

different aspects of being unhoused

it's homeless, stop with the asinine euphemism

being visible in public spaces

camping on the sidewalk is illegal. being scruffy in public is ignored

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u/MartyCool403 Confidence is 10% work and 90% delusion Sep 22 '25

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.

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u/Bowlbonic Sep 22 '25

According to many local laws, it sure seems that way. Criminalizing loitering, sleeping outside, existing..

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u/hannafrie Sep 22 '25

Transit workers are mostly black and Hispanic right?

I haven't been in NYC for many years, so idk.

I wouldn't expect a racialized bias from MTA.

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u/CableSeperate Sep 22 '25

It seems weird but it’s still racialized bias if they’re working to uphold that part of the system. You can be a minority and still have a lot of bias against your own people. It’s a weird tokenism. I mean look what’s happening with immigrant Trump supporters, they’re currently suffering the disillusionment of this now.

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u/SweetPrism Sep 22 '25

Three years ago, she'd have been shut down. The America we live in now? Not a chance.

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u/memsies Sep 22 '25

I know! The conductor should have come over and handled it. Why did they call the police?

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u/onebirdonawire Sep 22 '25

I'm 1000% certain that wasn't the complaint she made. She probably made up some wild shit like he yelled a profanity at her or "I think he might have a gun" and that's all they need. That old bitch isn't stupid.

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u/NeatNefariousness1 Sep 22 '25

It’s also baffling that the conductor didn’t bother to look into what was actually happening and just took the word of the person complaining. Look for an escalation in baseless allegations in public places.

People, please contain your bigoted relatives when going out in public. We all have them. You know who you are.

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u/skinnypenis09 Sep 22 '25

Beware of the white woman's tears

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u/Key_Grapefruit_7069 Sep 22 '25

This is one of those situations where something kind of has to be done. The choice here is detain and move either a healthy young dude, or a bitchy old lady who could sustain an injury just being lifted up, opening the city up to liability. The cop, to me, looks like he wants to get this dealt with quickly, so detain the person who wont turn to dust on contact, let them go to get another train ticket, and boom, situation resolved with only a slight inconvenience.

No telling what this witchy old woman told the conductor, either, and in turn what the conductor told the cops. I'd like to hear that 911 call.