NEW YORK CITY — A New York City judge has dismissed a civil summons against Alex O’Keefe, a former writer for FX’s hit show “The Bear” who was removed from a commuter train in handcuffs last month following a seating dispute.

O’Keefe, who is Black, has accused transit officers of targeting him over his race after another passenger complained about how O’Keefe was sitting on a Metro-North train.

In a video filmed by O’Keefe that gained widespread attention online, the TV screenwriter can be heard asking officers, “You’re going to arrest the one Black dude on the train because this white woman said she didn’t like the way I was sitting on the train?”

The train didn’t appear to be full in the video.

The Metropolitan Transportation Authority said police arrived after a conductor complaine

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