NEW YORK (AP) — A New York City judge has dismissed a civil summons against Alex O’Keefe, a former writer for FX’s hit show “The Bear” who was removed from a commuter train in handcuffs last month following a seating dispute.

O’Keefe, who is Black, has accused transit officers of targeting him over his race after another passenger complained about how O’Keefe was sitting on a Metro-North train.

In a video filmed by O’Keefe that gained widespread attention online, the TV screenwriter can be heard asking officers: “You’re going to arrest the one Black dude on the train, because this white woman said she didn’t like the way I was sitting on the train?”

The train didn’t appear to be full in the video.

The Metropolitan Transportation Authority said police arrived after a conductor complaine

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