(NewsNation) — A former writer for "The Bear” was handcuffed on a train, saying that a woman complained about how he was sitting.

Alex O’Keefe posted the tense exchange he had with the Metro Transit Authority Police on Instagram.

"I was arrested on the @MTA train to Connecticut today, pulled off, handcuffed, and detained," O'Keefe said. "An old white woman got on the train and immediately pointed at me and told me to correct how I was sitting.”

He added, “I refused, so she went to the conductor and complained. The conductor called the police and stopped the train."

Authorities told ABC News that they responded to calls of a "disorderly passenger" on a train at Fordham Metro-North station in the Bronx when "a conductor reported a passenger occupying two seats had refused to remove his f

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