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?"
Yes, everyone should follow the rules. This is about how we as a society handle situations where people break the rules. I’m sure you’ve been pulled over for a traffic violation before. Imagine the best case interaction and the worst case interaction that’s still within the bounds of enforcement regulations, and there’s a spectrum of everything in-between. The problem people are pointing out is that one privileged group of people statistically get better interactions and another group statistically gets worse interactions.
This ends with a police interaction sure, but I just don’t believe a run of the mill MTA worker who was ignoring how he was sitting prior to the complaint is forcing the interaction.
The old lady sure, ignore her. But when the train conductor tells you to sit right, just do it. Don’t make it some service workers problem, and force a whole train to stop over it.
That’s just a dick move, and I’ll die on this hill pointing that out.
There it is.
Have fun with Trump, and not following the rules because freedom, corruption and mass poverty are the same thing to you guys.
Go wave a flag (star spangled, rainbow, or both) and be for or against woke politics or Trump, anything but follow the fucking rules … Even the basic ones like not putting your feet on the seats on public transport.
Little wonder your society is collapsing when the basics don’t apply because of politics.
You sure do live in a rich imagination. What color is the sky?
What a deranged dipshit