In the caption of the Instagram post, he wrote, "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 went to the conductor and complained. The conductor called the police and stopped the train," he said.

O'Keefe also says in the caption that the friend of the woman who called the police had said to him, "You're not the minority anymore."

A separate video about the incident has been uploaded by the user, Nalae, on TikTok, where it has quickly gone viral, having been viewed over 160,000 times as of reporting.

They said I was disturbing the peace by not leaving the train. They pulled me off the train and arrested me without even talking to the Karen who reported the one black person on the train. On the platform, the police detained me and interrogated me. Only black folks stayed nearby and recorded the arrest. When I demanded a lawyer and reminded them they didn't even take a statement from the woman who complained they eventually released me. This country is growing more psycho by the day. What will you do about it?"

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[–] 278 points 11 months ago (19 children)

"You're not the minority anymore."

Jesus fucking Christ.

This says so much. They think “minority” means a person who gets special treatment. That’s how fucking deluded they’ve become.

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  • [–] 103 points 11 months ago (12 children)

    That... explains so much. Racists are fucking jealous that black people get to be oppressed??? Is it like some martyrdom by proxy fuckedupedness?

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  • [–] 69 points 11 months ago* (7 children)

    Sorta. I was raised with this bullshit, so I can see the distortion of reality. I'm still unpacking all this in therapy myself, because it's a whole worldview.

    First off, they're woefully uneducated about history. My high school in Oklahoma briefly touched on the Civil Rights Movement and tried to pass it off as something that was over and done. Rosa Parks got arrested, the white people were shocked that this could happen, they had a sit-in party at a milkshake stand (they didn't talk about any of the pushback that got), MLK did his speech and now everything is fine for black people, no more institutional racism, literally being taught in schools. Now, combine that with your own needs not being met, and the talking heads/politicans say that you're not getting the aid you need because it's going towards making hurt feelings better. There's only so much money in the coffers, and you gotta be really hard up if you're white, but it's easy to get if you're black.

    There's also a heavy religious framing about ancestral guilt. Like, if God can make life suck for everybody because Eve ate an apple, and libs are trying to play god, it follows to reason they'd want to make your life suck for the sins of your great-great-great grandparents. It's never outright stated, but if you listen to enough sermons, the puzzle fills in. Like, again, they think the civil rights movement fixed everything, so they think white people have atoned for their transgressions, but the pastor says libs are in consort with satan and can't forgive like jesus, so that's why they want white people to suffer.

    Edit: I want to make it clear that I do not personally believe any of that, it's just what I was taught as a kid.

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    [–] 212 points 11 months ago (90 children)

    I mean what the actual fuck?!? If this is only half as egregious as this is being portrayed I wish I had been there. I would have told that old white Karen to shut the fuck up. And I don’t even know who this dude is. And I’m an old white dude.

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  • [–] 193 points 11 months ago (10 children)

    Us old white dudes have a responsibility to get involved in these events.

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  • [–] 69 points 11 months ago (2 children)

    Exactly…

    The only thing better is some old white grandma getting involved. Pretty sure sweet old ladies outranks an old “Susan”.

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  • [–] 55 points 11 months ago (5 children)

    I know cops are scary, but white people need to realise their power in a situation like this. Being white gives you like a +80% modifier in interactions with the police. Even just getting in the space and being a clueless white dude asking questions spreads that modifier to allies in proximity, including those being arrested.

    By getting involved you raise the expectation of civility, because our fucking society is racist.

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    [–] 138 points 11 months ago* (8 children)

    The conductor called the police and stopped the train," he said.

    Well there's your problem, the conductor should have told this woman to do one. Let's say that he had his feet up on a seat, or whatever, in what world do you stop the train service entirely for that.

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    [–] 118 points 11 months ago (3 children)

    "You're not the minority anymore."

    It's a code for "you're in Trump America, now."

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    [–] 96 points 11 months ago (4 children)

    I don't like the headline. He has a name, you know, and it's Alex O'keefe.

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  • Conveniently, the officer body cam footage is “not available”. Absolutely insane they are making it sound like it’s his fault the train is delayed.

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  • [–] 87 points 11 months ago (2 children)

    Sitting? While black? That's a paddlin'.

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  • [–] 79 points 11 months ago (6 children)

    Luckily he is American. If he was a legal migrant having been booked would be considered a visa offense and he could be sent to a concentration camp.

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  • [–] 39 points 11 months ago*

    Luckily he is American famous.

    The usual story here for Americans is that they get arrested for resisting arrest and assulting a police officer and then get sentences to 10+ years in the local gulag.

    Immigrants instead get sent to the camps for deportation.

    He's well enough known, there were enough cameras and he's media/white american savvy enough to avoid the worst outcomes.

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    [–] 62 points 11 months ago (6 children)

    Jesus Christ. Probably gave the bitch a bit of nostalgia for the "good ol days". Also, what seating position was he doing that she took offense to? Because I don't think there's any seating position that could be considered offensive.

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  • [–] 36 points 11 months ago (3 children)

    For WASPs any position that isn’t upright, knees together, feet on the floor is disrespectful. Whether he was just slouching or maybe leaning over in the seat, who knows other than him.

    And even if he was, who fucking cares? The entitlement to think you get control over how random strangers sit in public is crazy. The only official rule I could even think of to begin justifying this is to not lay down completely when there are no seats available, but nothing in the article indicates anything like that. And attempted arrest is an insane overreaction.

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    [–] 61 points 11 months ago (3 children)

    Most Americans don't realize just how deeply racist some people are in this country, I've seen similar behavior before from white women, towards a black kid who was just hanging around in a library, and now these shitty people feel even more emboldened.

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    [–] 59 points 11 months ago (12 children)

    So he was sitting improperly? They didn't say exactly why it was 'improper' to begin with?

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    [–] 59 points 11 months ago* (14 children)

    This just after a lynching happened in Jacksonville, Mississippi.

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    [–] 52 points 11 months ago (12 children)

    Shit like this happens every fucking day. This is news because the victim is famous.

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    [–] 50 points 11 months ago (8 children)

    This is just stupid. And I mean, the arrest. You Americans seem to be subject to arrest for the stupidest things.

    Putting your feet on a seat is gross. The guy should have complied with the indication to put them down. Non compliance should have resulted in -at most- a fine. This is what would had happened in my country, and my guess, in the majority of places in the world.

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    A separate video about the incident has been uploaded by the user, Nalae, on TikTok, where it has quickly gone viral, having been viewed over 160,000 times as of reporting.

    Sigh. Where's the video?

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    [–] 46 points 11 months ago

    Damn if we see segregation you owe me a trillion

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  • [–] 43 points 11 months ago (5 children)

    Welcome to the new witch hunts. This time all over the US, not just Salem... the new improved forth Reich.

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    [–] 37 points 11 months ago* (3 children)

    That should have been real easy:

    “Ma’am, fuck off to another train car if you have a problem with the way someone is sitting and don’t ever waste our time again. Sir, have a nice day.”

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    [–] 33 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

    Hope he finds that woman, conductor and police chief and sues their ass (like any good it will do, but at least the internet can make a public example of her).

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