Frame grabs from a viral Twitter video show BART police arresting a man who was initially cited for eating a sandwich on a station platform. BART said its Independent Police Auditor is investigating the incident. (Images by @ToneOliver/Twitter)

A Concord man who was detained for eating a sandwich on the platform of BART’s Pleasant Hill station this month has filed a claim against the transit agency alleging that he was racially profiled.

Steve Foster, 31, alleges in the claim that BART officers selectively detained him based on his race in the incident on the platform at 8 a.m. on Nov. 4 as he waited for a train to take him to his job as a tech operator in San Francisco.

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