MTA Defends Alex O'Keefe Detainment

Last week award winning screenwriter, Alex O'Keefe, was hauled off an MTA commuter train in handcuffs after another passenger accused him of sitting incorrectly [click here if you missed that].

MTA stands by their actions...

From The NY Post

MTA cops told The Post on Monday that a conductor had “reported a passenger occupying two seats had refused to remove his feet from one of the seats.”

When officers boarded the train, O’Keefe still kept his legs stretched out with both feet on the opposite seat — and refused all requests to remove them, cops said, saying bodycam video showed it.

The belligerent screenwriter refused to get off and get the next train, “delaying service for several hundred other riders for six minutes,” the department said.

Unable to get him off willingly, officers “were forced to handcuff him to remove him from the train, giving him a summons for disorderly conduct.”

However, “the passenger involved was not placed under arrest at any time,” MTA cops said, stressing that he was able to get the next train.