MTA chairman Janno Lieber on Monday defended the agency’s police department for cuffing and removing The Bear screenwriter Alex O’Keefe from a Metro-North train for allegedly keeping his feet up on the seats.

O’Keefe, who is black, posted a video showing two MTAPD officers removing him from a train after a white woman “said she didn’t like the way I was sitting,” he alleged.

Lieber acknowledged he hadn’t seen the video, which as of late Monday had gone viral on multiple social media platforms. But Lieber put the blame for the incident on O’Keefe’s apparent decision not to put his feet down.

“If you’re putting your feet on the seats, you’re breaking the rules of our commuter railroad and of the subways of the whole MTA,” Lieber told reporters Monday when asked about the incident. “Thi

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