An award-winning Black screenwriter was removed from a train by police after he said an “old white lady” called 911 to report him because she didn’t like the way he was sitting.

Alex O’Keefe, a screenwriter who worked on the hit Hulu drama series, “The Bear,” recorded the moments he was detained by police officers and removed from a Metropolitan Transportation Authority train.

“I was arrested on the @MTA train to Connecticut today, pulled off, handcuffed, and detained. An old white woman got on the train and immediately pointed at me and told me to correct how I was sitting,” O’Keefe wrote in an Instagram post. “I refused so she went to the conductor and complained. The conductor called the police and stopped the train.”

In the footage, O’Keefe maintains he hasn’t done “anything illegal

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