Alex O’Keefe , the award-winning screenwriter behind FX’s The Bear , said he was removed from a Metro-North train and arrested after a white woman complained about the way he was sitting.

On Sunday (September 21), O'Keefe took to Instagram to detail the incident, sharing footage from his encounter with police who responded to the white woman's complaint.

“I was arrested on the @MTA train to Connecticut today, pulled off, handcuffed, and detained,” O’Keefe wrote. “You're gonna arrest the one Black dude on the train, because this white woman said she didn't like the way I was sitting.”

One video shows O’Keefe filming police officers and the elderly white woman who made the complaint.

“You call the police to arrest the one Black dude on the train,” he said in the video. “I haven't

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