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'The Bear' writer arrested on train after complaint from white woman (www.newsweek.com)

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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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[-] wulrus@lemmy.world 6 points 1 month ago

Seemed odd about his own testimony, as quoted in this article, that he keeps avoiding to mention HOW he was sitting and whether he complied when told to stop it. Makes me picture one of these assholes who put their dirty shoes on a second seat in a full train.

His odd avoidance of the core of the issue made me search for other sources. Not surprising that a quick search supports most of this. Also, he refused to stop doing that, which he also does not deny as far as the quotes from this article go.

Then, he tries to use his celebrity status to order cops to harass an elderly woman, whose statement is irrelevant because apparently there are plenty of witnesses, including the train personnel and his own confession.

Then, he seriously tries to pull the race card.

And this is the hero of Lemmy?

Hat off the elderly woman and the police, though! Wish this kind of justice would happen when I'm on the train.

This has become a cesspool of disinformation. All the out of context Kirk quotes from the past few days (was still somewhere between nonsense and disgusting in context, but an entirely different statement), and another post claims that every day 0.25 % of the US population gets shot, and this lie somehow supports the trans agenda.

Disclaimer: Judging the situation as presented in available articles, as I don't know what really happened.

[-] prole 6 points 1 month ago

Disclaimer: Judging the situation as presented in available articles, as I don't know what really happened.

Who writes such a scathing comment, and then admits that they have no idea what actually happened. For fuck sake

[-] GiantChickDicks@lemmy.ml 6 points 1 month ago

How he was sitting? Really? Fuck right off with your ridiculous ass.

[-] mcv@lemmy.zip 4 points 1 month ago

You're making a lot of assumptions. All we know is that in the end he was released, so they didn't actually have any reason to arrest him. Whatever the issue was with how he sat, there was no basis for arrest, and probably no basis to call the police at all.

Maybe he did put his dirty shoes on the seat, but the article doesn't tell us. Nobody does. All we know is that they wanted to arrest him, but couldn't. Whatever he did wasn't serious enough for it and yet they tried and held up a train for it.

It is of course only his side of the story. More info would help. But without more info, there's no reason not to believe that he was harassed mostly just for being black. It's not like this is the first time that happened.

[-] AA5B@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Maybe he was harassed for his skin color, but this article did leave out the core of what happened. It’s just as likely the treatment was deserved: we have no information either way. The article jumps right to we should be outraged, without actually saying enough of what happened. And yes, I’ve seen assholes on the train where I really wished the conductor would intervene

[-] MangioneDontMiss@feddit.nl 4 points 1 month ago

I was about to agree with you, in that its kind of hard to really judge whats going on in this video without seeing exactly what happened prior to the recording -- but then you just jumped completely off the deep end into crazy.

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[-] zanyllama52@infosec.pub 4 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

What is this world coming to?

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[-] lvnelrs@programming.dev 3 points 1 month ago

Racist old gal? not in this times where holy persons like Kirk exist. /s

[-] SourGumGum@lemmy.world 3 points 1 month ago

Don't let me catch you slipping now

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