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?"
Immediately pointed to me and told me to correct how I was sitting.
Old white women try to remember it’s not 1952 challenge (IMPOSSIBLE)
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How does one sit “offensively” on a train? All the coverage of this seems to just skip over that. Was he sitting with no pants? Laying across 3 seats? This is a novel one for me.
she meant he should sit at the back
What is your source for this? Even the quote from above says “how” he was sitting, not “where”. Did someone else have better coverage?
Racist old gal? not in this times where holy persons like Kirk exist. /s
What will you do about it?
Stay on the train and punch the Karen in the face before getting off at the next stop.
What is this world coming to?
What is this world coming to?
Fascism.
But the US is way ahead on that.
Most Americans don’t realize just how deeply racist some people are in this country, I’ve seen similar behavior before from white women, towards a black kid who was just hanging around in a library, and now these shitty people feel even more emboldened.
The “You’re not the minority anymore” part was what made me do a double take. The level of delusion these people engage in is absolutely insane.
This is just stupid. And I mean, the arrest. You Americans seem to be subject to arrest for the stupidest things.
Putting your feet on a seat is gross. The guy should have complied with the indication to put them down. Non compliance should have resulted in -at most- a fine. This is what would had happened in my country, and my guess, in the majority of places in the world.
Laws are written in ways they can be used at the discretion of the power. Their discretion, their prerogative, their biase, their bigotry. All laws written to apply only when the power chooses are not law, but privilege.
That must be the “freedom” everyone is talking about…
Still trying to figure out which felonies get you deported and which ones get you a seat at the table. Starting to think its not about laws at all here.
It’$ not ju$t about badly-written law$, and it help$ if you do it the white way.
Hope he finds that woman, conductor and police chief and sues their ass (like any good it will do, but at least the internet can make a public example of her).
So he was sitting improperly? They didn’t say exactly why it was ‘improper’ to begin with?
The dropdown menu just doesn’t offer them the option for ‘was on a whites only train’, prob an admin error that will be soon corrected.
/s
But dickishness does/should have some consequences. Obviously not handcuffs consequences tho.
Someone not occupying more than one sit on a public transport isn’t the worst thing to gatekeep.
How it can escalate to calling the police idk.
The story never specified what the guy did though.
It’s important to know enough facts, yeah.
Maybe he had his shoes on the seats and is now crying racism.
He did it while black. That’s clearly an arrestable offense.
WTF. She probably wears that face mask all the time, you know those weirdos that wears them even if they’re not sick.
You mean that white pointy one with the eye holes?
Sitting? While black? That’s a paddlin’.
sitting menacingly, -COPs
He’s sitting right towards us!
Conveniently, the officer body cam footage is “not available”. Absolutely insane they are making it sound like it’s his fault the train is delayed.
After reading that headline, for a second I was wondering how Anton Checkov had come alive again and was on a train.
I don’t like the headline. He has a name, you know, and it’s Alex O’keefe.
The headline makes it sound like he did something wrong too. Instead he was harassed because of a Karen
Idk to me it was clear he did nothing wrong. In that case it would have said “because he did X ans Y” instead of basically “because of a Karen”
the final form of a karen, an old/ elderly white lady.
Yeah, total bullshit.
Luckily he is American. If he was a legal migrant having been booked would be considered a visa offense and he could be sent to a concentration camp.
Luckily he is
Americanfamous.The usual story here for Americans is that they get arrested for resisting arrest and assulting a police officer and then get sentences to 10+ years in the local gulag.
Immigrants instead get sent to the camps for deportation.
He’s well enough known, there were enough cameras and he’s media/white american savvy enough to avoid the worst outcomes.
Without due process, even that doesn’t matter.
He will just be labeled “antifa” now, without proof. This is how fascism usually works.
wouldnt he still be “deported” to africa, because of his skin color, potentially.
Nah, we don’t deport people anywhere they might have tires to.
Based on his skin color this man is clearly Laotian, send him straight to Vientiane! He can go peddle his scripts by the Mekong! (I’m joking)
