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White Woman Charged For Police Call On Black Man

Jul 7, 2020 | Pratirodh Bureau

The May video - taken in New York and filming a verbal dispute between Amy Cooper (above), who was walking her dog off a leash in Central Park, and Christian Cooper, a Black man who was out bird-watching - sparked accusations of racism

A white woman in the United States who called the police and falsely accused an African-American man of threatening her life after he asked her to leash her dog in New York’s Central Park is being criminally charged over the incident, Manhattan’s district attorney said on Monday.

Amy Cooper, 41, whose actions on May 25 were recorded on a video that went viral and touched off discussions about “white privilege”, is being charged with filing a false report, a Class A misdemeanor punishable by up to one year in jail.

Manhattan District Attorney Cy Vance said Cooper is expected to be arraigned on Oct. 14.

“We are strongly committed to holding perpetrators of this conduct accountable,” Vance said in a statement.

The incident stirred widespread conversations about racism and how white people treat Black people.

It occurred a few hours before George Floyd died in Minneapolis after a police officer there pinned his neck.

Cooper had been walking her dog in an area of Central Park known as the Ramble when she encountered Christian Cooper, a Black man and avid bird-watcher.

Christian Cooper, who is not related to Amy Cooper, asked her to leash her dog, and when she refused, he offered the dog treats.

The video showed Amy Cooper telling him she would tell the police an African-American man was threatening her life, which was false, and then calling 911, where she used “African-American” twice to describe Cooper.

The video has more than 44.7 million views on Twitter.

Amy Cooper was fired from her job at investment company Franklin Templeton a day after the incident, when she also publicly apologised.

In a statement on Monday, Cooper’s lawyer Robert Barnes said she would be found not guilty, and faulted a “rush to judgment” by some about the case.

“She lost her job, her home, and her public life. Now some demand her freedom?” Barnes said. “How many lives are we going to destroy over misunderstood 60-second videos on social media?”

Tags: African-American, Amy Cooper, Christian Cooper, death of George Floyd, George Floyd, Manhattan District Attorney Cy Vance, New York's Central Park, Pratirodh

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