A former writer for The Bear , Alex O’Keefe, posted video recently showing what he says occurred on a transit train in Connecticut after the WGA Award-winning scribe refused to comply with a fellow passenger’s demand.

O’Keefe, who is Black, says “an old white woman got on the train and immediately pointed at me and told me to correct how I was sitting.” He says he refused and subsequently was “pulled off, handcuffed, and detained” by police.

Per AP, the Metropolitan Transportation Authority said O’Keefe had been sitting with both legs stretched across an adjacent seat — a violation of the rail line’s rules.

In a video posted online O’Keefe, who wrote on eight episodes of the hit show in Season 1, is heard saying, “This white woman said she didn’t like the way I was sitting on the tr

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