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?"
I don’t believe you. I don’t think this conversation is worth continuing further.
I already laid out the case for systemic racism yesterday:
https://lemmy.world/comment/19545014
You want to disbelieve me sure… I’ll just note that you’re leaving now that other MTA cases have been shown to you. Worse ones where shit just went down without celebrity tiktokers claiming it was racism.
That’s all. Make trouble on the MTA get asked to leave. That’s how it goes down on the regular.
MTA bus driver stabbed, - . Atttacks on MTA workers on the rise… The M stands for mass by the way… As in, a massive amount of public interactions each day.