The former writer “The Bear” handcuffed on the train after an alleged complaint by White Woman

Alex O’Keefe, a former writer of “The Bear”, the successful successful program on FX, spoke on social networks after his police detention and forced to leave a train after saying that a white passenger wanted him to correct the way he was seated.
O’Keefe, who is black, posted the confrontation with the Metro Transit Authority police on his Instagram.
Alex O’Keefe attends the ceremony on the west coast of the Guild of the 2023 guild in Fairmont Century Plaza, on March 5, 2023, in Los Angeles.
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The incident occurred Thursday, according to a press release from the MTA police department in ABC News.
The police responded to a complaint of a “disorderly” 31-year-old “passenger” on a train at Fordham Metro-North station in the Bronx when “a conductor reported that a passenger occupying two seats had refused to remove his feet from one of the seats”, according to the authorities.
“I was arrested on the train @MTA for the Connecticut today, withdrawn, handcuffed and detained,” O’Keefe said in a press release on social networks. “An old white woman went up on the train and immediately pointed me and told me to correct how I was sitting. I refused then she went to the conductor and complained. The conductor called the police and arrested the train.”
The authorities told ABC News in a statement that a passenger, presumed to be O’Keefe, challenged officers to leave the train. When he was not released, the police handcuffed him and escorted him. The officials added that he had at no time had arrested.
In the video, the police can be seen grab the wrist of O’Keefe as they try to put handcuffs. The writer pointed out an elderly woman and may be heard, “You will stop the only black guy on the train because this white woman said that she did not like the way I was sitting on the train.”
We can hear the officers ask him to stop resisting while the video seems to show a fight to handle O’Keefe. He also posted on social networks photos of the elderly woman and an elderly white man, as well as a video that seems to come from a third of O’Keefe in the handcuffs outside the train, saying: “They just saw the black guy and they stopped me.”
The award -winning writer who wrote for season one of “The Bear” said that an alleged friend of the woman who reported him said to O’Keefe: “You are no longer the minority.”
“The police told me to leave the train, I refused and asked what I was doing illegally,” he said in his article on social networks. “They said I was disturbing peace by not leaving the train. They removed me from the train and stopped me without speaking to the Karen who reported the only black person on the train.”
MTA police told ABC News in a statement that the police responded to the complaint around 10:25 am, the authorities told the passenger to leave the train on the platform, where he would be able to climb a next train.
“When he continued to refuse to go out, delaying the service of several hundred other runners for six minutes, the passenger involved was handcuffed and withdrawn from the train, where he received a convocation for disorderly driving, a violation, without any other incident at around 1048 hours, and authorized to get on the next train to finish his trip.” MTA police told ABC News in a statement.
Authorities said there was a corporal camera video from the incident, but “this sequence is not available”.
According to the rules of conduct of the MTA stated on its website, the runners are subject to a fine of $ 50 to occupy more than one seat in lengthens or by placing the feet. If a rider ignores an opinion of violation of an officer, he is subject to an ejecture, the rules indicate.
“This country becomes more psycho day by day. What will you do about it?” O’Keefe said in a statement on his article on social networks.
FX had no comments when reached by ABC News.
Armando Garcia and Anastasia Williams of ABC News contributed to this report.



