WATCH: Brooklyn Man Takes Selfies With Thief Who Snatched His Wallet

Have you ever taken a selfie with people who have allegedly stolen your stuff? It might sound bizarre, but a 25-year-old Brooklyn man named Cee Da-Prophet did just the same when he grabbed a suspect who allegedly stole his wallet around 3 p.m. EDT Friday and took a video and a selfie outside a Manhattan train station.

Da-Prophet posted three videos on Facebook on Saturday where he is seen holding on to the thief.

Da-Prophet, the soon-to-be father of two, narrated the incident to the New York Post, saying he was taking an uptown B train to work when the alleged theft happened at 7th Avenue station. “I really wanted to get my stuff back,” he said.

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Da-Prophet said he accidentally dropped his wallet inside the train and claimed the suspect quickly came to the spot where he was sitting and grabbed the wallet. The suspect exited the train as the doors were about to close and managed to get away from Da-Prophet.

Da-Prophet said: “I was like, ‘That’s not happening to me today. I got stuff to do.'" Prophet got off at the next 59th Street-Columbus Circle station and took a train back to 7th Avenue, where the suspect had got off. Da-Prophet was fortunate enough to spot the alleged thief who was still at the station.

“By the time I got back to the platform, it must have been 15 minutes later...I didn’t expect to see him, but when the train was pulling up, he was right there by a garbage can…I grabbed him and started cursing at him. He said, ‘I don’t have your wallet.’ So I told him to empty your pockets and he wouldn’t," Da-Prophet told New York Post.

In the video, it is apparent how scared the suspect was as Da-Prophet was grabbing him, repeatedly asking him to return the wallet as he had a family to feed. By this time, a large group of bystanders had gathered at the place where Da-Prophet was heard telling the suspect not to create a scene.

Bystanders called the police before Da-Prophet pulled out his cell phone to start recording the encounter.

Cops identified the suspect in Da-Prophet's video as Hagie Mangara, 31, of the Bronx. They said he had a record of committing offensive acts such as jumping turnstiles and others. He was released Saturday on his "own recognizance", the New York Daily News reported.

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After Da-Prophet posted the videos on Facebook, several users started criticizing him by saying if the suspect wasn't an African-American, he would not have put up the videos.

Replying to the criticism, Da-Prophet posted a comment Monday on Facebook: "See let's clear the air now... I just got a message dude said that he bet I wouldn't have put up the video if the guy was American... Where are y'all getting this from? I never even described this man as African until he told me he was."