After Alex O’Keefe, the award-winning screenwriter of Hulu’s “The Bear,” who is Black, posted on social media that he was allegedly arrested following a complaint made by a White woman about the way he was seated while aboard a Metro North train to Connecticut on Sept. 18, the MTA Police Department (MTAPD) provided an update on the incident, saying “the passenger” [O’Keefe] was handcuffed and removed from the Metro North Train at the Fordham Metro-North station in The Bronx but was not arrested.

O’Keefe had posted a video on his Instagram account of the incident, writing, “I was arrested on the @MTA train to Connecticut today, pulled off, handcuffed, and detained. 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

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