Manhattan D.A. Charges White Woman For Calling 911 On Black Man Who Admitted He Threatening Her

[rangerrebew]

Manhattan D.A. Charges White Woman For Calling 911 On Black Man Who Admitted He Threatening Her
Chris Menahan
InformationLiberation
Jul. 06, 2020


Manhattan District Attorney Cyrus Vance fought to lessen Jeffrey Epstein's sex offender status despite the threat he posed to young girls and declined to prosecute Harvey Weinstein but he had no issue with charging Amy Cooper on Monday for calling 911 on an African-American Democrat activist who openly admitted he threatened her.



From The New York Times:

    A white woman who called the police and falsely accused a Black man of threatening her life after he asked her to put her dog on a leash will face misdemeanor charges, the Manhattan district attorney announced Monday.

    Amy Cooper, the woman in the Central Park encounter, which was recorded on video and touched off intense discussions about the history of Black people being falsely reported to the police, will be charged with filing a false report, a misdemeanor punishable by up to a year in jail.

https://www.informationliberation.com/?id=61579

[PeteS in CA]

She's 40ish, from Canuckia (not your typical right-wing redneck, eh?), and got fired from a VP position at Franklin Templeton. Where did Christian Cooper say he threatened her?

[mountaineer]

 The article addresses the alleged threat by Christian Cooper against Amy Cooper:

The Real Story of “The Central Park Karen”
New evidence comes to light. And Amy Cooper breaks her silence.
By Megan Phelps-Roper
August 3, 2021

Amy Cooper was not the internet’s first “Karen” — the pejorative used for a demanding, entitled white woman. But as the Central Park dog walker who called the police on a black birdwatcher last year, she quickly became the paragon of the archetype.

In a video that went instantly viral, we watch as she summons law enforcement to protect her from the man, whose race she mentions three times in a matter of moments: “I’m going to tell them there’s an African-American man threatening my life.”  ...

To tell this story is to address a different set of problems.

Among them: our collective intoxication with public shaming. Our willingness to dispense with due process when we think we “know” the truth in the absence of evidence. The media’s complicity in perpetuating public judgments, even when the facts directly contradict those judgments. The lack of proportion in the punishments meted out to perceived offenders. The absence of any avenue for redemption or reconciliation when a breach has been made. And the mercilessness shown to those at the center of these storms, often leaving them suicidal and broken. (Thankfully, Christian Cooper tried to rein in some excesses of the public reaction: “I don’t know if her life needed to be torn apart.” And I hope it’s clear that attacking him isn’t part of our purpose here.) ...