Central Park ‘Karen’ Faces Criminal Charges for Calling Police on Black Birdwatcher
thewrap.comAlso Read: Central Park Dog Walker Amy Cooper Faces Charges for Falsely Reporting an IncidentThe interaction between Cooper and the bird watcher, Christian Cooper, was videotaped and widely circulated on social media, renewing public scrutiny around repeated incidents of white people calling the police to falsely accuse Black people of wrongdoing.During the encounter, Christian Cooper had asked Amy Cooper to put her dog on a leash, given that they were in a part of Central Park that requires dogs to be leashed.
Amy Cooper refused to do so, and the encounter soon escalated as Amy Cooper took out her phone and called the police, saying, “There is a man, African-American, he has a bicycle helmet and he is recording me and threatening me and my.
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