Alex O’Keefe, a staff writer on the Emmy-winning first season of The Bear , was handcuffed and removed from a Metro-North train on Thursday last week. A spokesperson for the MTA told The Cut in an emailed statement that its police officers responded to reports of a “disorderly passenger” on a train heading from New York’s Grand Central Terminal to New Haven, Connecticut. But according to an Instagram caption O’Keefe posted that day, the “disorderly” behavior in question was the position in which he, a Black man, was sitting. “An old white woman got on the train and immediately pointed at me and told me to correct how I was sitting,” O’Keefe wrote, accompanied by a video he filmed of the incident. “I refused so she went to the conductor and complained.”

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