Overview

• O’Keefe, 31, was handcuffed and taken off a Connecticut-bound train at Fordham in the Bronx on Thursday after a conductor reported a rider occupying two seats.
• He received a summons for disorderly conduct, was not arrested, and was allowed to board the next train at about 10:48 a.m. after a six-minute service delay.
• MTA and MTAPD say body-worn and onboard camera footage corroborates that his legs were stretched across an adjacent seat, though that video has not been made public.
• O’Keefe, who is Black, posted viral videos alleging he was targeted after an older white woman complained and said police did not take her statement.
• MTA Chair Janno Lieber backed the response, stressing rules against putting feet on seats and saying the situation would have been avoided by following those rules.