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In reply to the discussion: Central Park "Karen" has lost her job [View all]demmiblue
(36,823 posts)24. NYT: Woman Is Fired After Calling Police on Black Man in Central Park
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Mr. Cooper, who works in communications and graduated from Harvard, according to his LinkedIn profile, included his account of the conversation that took place before he began filming.
First he asked her to leash her dog, he said. She refused.
Look, if youre going to do what you want, Im going to do what I want, but youre not going to like it, he told her, according to his post.
Mr. Cooper, who is on the board of the New York City Audubon Society, then produced dog treats, which he explained, he carries because it forces owners to leash their dogs to prevent the animal from snacking.
I pull out the dog treats I carry for just for such intransigence, he wrote. Thats when I started video recording with my iPhone, and when her inner Karen fully emerged and took a dark turn, he said, using the name Karen, which has become slang for an entitled white woman.
Adding to the fractiousness of the exchange is a long history of tension between birders and dog walkers in Central Park, magnified by the fraught climate of the pandemic lockdown. At one point Ms. Cooper, wearing a face mask, lunges toward Mr. Cooper, a behavior that some who viewed the video have called an assault, because of the violation of social distancing that occurs.
It was particularly a punch in the gut for a lot of people, said Professor Katheryn Russell-Brown, the director of the Center for the Study of Race and Race Relations at the University of Floridas Levin College of Law. It ties into and taps into a long history of white women in particular falsely accusing black men of crimes that leads to great harm.
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/26/nyregion/amy-cooper-dog-central-park.html
Mr. Cooper, who works in communications and graduated from Harvard, according to his LinkedIn profile, included his account of the conversation that took place before he began filming.
First he asked her to leash her dog, he said. She refused.
Look, if youre going to do what you want, Im going to do what I want, but youre not going to like it, he told her, according to his post.
Mr. Cooper, who is on the board of the New York City Audubon Society, then produced dog treats, which he explained, he carries because it forces owners to leash their dogs to prevent the animal from snacking.
I pull out the dog treats I carry for just for such intransigence, he wrote. Thats when I started video recording with my iPhone, and when her inner Karen fully emerged and took a dark turn, he said, using the name Karen, which has become slang for an entitled white woman.
Adding to the fractiousness of the exchange is a long history of tension between birders and dog walkers in Central Park, magnified by the fraught climate of the pandemic lockdown. At one point Ms. Cooper, wearing a face mask, lunges toward Mr. Cooper, a behavior that some who viewed the video have called an assault, because of the violation of social distancing that occurs.
It was particularly a punch in the gut for a lot of people, said Professor Katheryn Russell-Brown, the director of the Center for the Study of Race and Race Relations at the University of Floridas Levin College of Law. It ties into and taps into a long history of white women in particular falsely accusing black men of crimes that leads to great harm.
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/26/nyregion/amy-cooper-dog-central-park.html
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We didn't know; we knew she'd been suspended pending an investigation.
The Velveteen Ocelot
May 2020
#19
Heh! Lost her dog, job, possibly career, And any chance of marriage except to a toothless Nazi.
madinmaryland
May 2020
#50
There were also other people who knew her and came to the aid of the victims
MagickMuffin
May 2020
#68
She's complaining that her life has been destroyed. Of course, Christian Cooper's life
tblue37
May 2020
#39
Yep. One would guess that people would have learned in the age of cellphone video recording.
Blue_true
May 2020
#77
I don't know many of us that don't first feel sorry for ourselves --- after we've committed injury
erronis
May 2020
#59
I don't like this form of social justice either. Feels too much like a posse, but I was
japple
May 2020
#62
When I saw the video yesterday, I thought she was having a nervous breakdown.
OAITW r.2.0
May 2020
#16
It would be interesting to know what people who knew her thought of her before that incident.
smirkymonkey
May 2020
#67
We all need to learn lessons from others. White-on-black genocide is one that we shouldn't have to
erronis
May 2020
#61
It's interesting that she does not show up on the FINRA BrokerCheck database.
A HERETIC I AM
May 2020
#26
Yes, adding the "looks" part in took away from the message about how a person
Blue_true
May 2020
#88