Ald. Andre Vasquez (40) asks CTA President Dorval Carter questions during a transportation committee hearing Thursday. [Livestream]

Dorval Carter, the embattled president of the Chicago Transit Authority, struck a defiant tone during a combative hearing before the Committee on Transportation and Public Way Thursday, which came a week after a majority of alderpeople signed on to a resolution calling for his resignation or firing.

“I have been turned into a caricature. I have been turned into something that is less than a human being,” Carter said. “I can tell you as an African American male, that bothers me a lot.”