A white man was caught on video harassing a Black woman on an Amtrak train.
Nafís White, who shared the video on social media, said she felt threatened as a passenger seated in front of her "accosted" her during her travels from Boston to New York City earlier this month.
After she returned to her seat from the restroom, White said the passenger falsely accused her of shaking his seat and opening a tray table.
“My friend asked him why he was speaking to us rudely and he asked him why he had specifically targeted me. The man then turned around and violently pushed his seat all the way back in an attempt to hit my legs and invade my space,” White captioned a video of the incident.
White said she began recording the man for "protection" as he kept staring at her and her friend and refused to turn around.
Video shows the man pointing his phone camera back at White.
“You can film me back if you want, but you really don’t need to be antagonizing me,” White said. “That’s absolutely uncalled for, so I will film you until you turn around. This is so ridiculous.”
The man then exited his seat and stood up next to White. Other passengers attempted to intervene and asked the man to leave White alone.
“He’s going to get violent with me or something. He needs to be off this train,” White said in the video.
“Please get help,” she added.
White said the man later stood near the exit doors of the train car, “motioning me with his hands to come to him, the kind of motion you see on martial arts films when one person wants to fight another. I did not move from my seat."
According to White, a conductor later arrived and failed to take action against the passenger. The conductor allegedly told her that the man's behavior was justified because she was shaking his seat and pulling the tray table though White maintained she didn't.
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