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A couple was on a date were removed from a New York City subway train, because of mistaken identity. In a video captured by another passenger, the unidentified couple pleaded with police officers as they were removed from a train car according to the New York Post. The incident took place on Feb. 24 around 1 AM in Brooklyn when approx. 10 officers got on the train after they received a call about a man pulling out a weapon. The officers went after a man who reportedly fit the description and removed him from the train.

“What did I do? What did I do? I just came off a date,” he told the officers. The officers also removed the woman who was with him. “Get off of me! Get the f–k off of me!” she shouted.

The couple has been released but charged with disorderly conduct according to The Post. Passenger Neely Grobani filmed the encounter and posted it on Twitter.

“We all wondered what was going on as about 15 cops stood on one side the closed doors and we all sat on the other,” she wrote. “As soon as the doors opened, the cops rushed in and grabbed the young man I was sitting across from. They grabbed his girlfriend as soon as she tried to follow him to figure out what was going on.”

The video has since gone viral. Grobani told PIX11 filming the incident was the least she could do.

“‪It became really clear that whatever they were looking for was not on this couple,” she recalled. “It was stressful and I wasn’t sure what I could do in that situation — and the one thing I could do was film it, so I did.”

Grobani still doesn’t think the roust, because the couple has been sleeping on their seat before NYPD stormed the train car.

‪“The fact that they were looking for something and there were people on the train, they could’ve asked: ‘Did anyone see something?’ They didn’t engage at all. It was upsetting and concerning to me,” Grobani said. The officers searched the train and platform but never recovered a gun. As of now, it’s unclear if they ever found the actual suspect.

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