Investment firm suspends woman over video of her calling the police on a black man who asked her to

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Source: Business Insider

By Sinéad Baker

A global investment firm has suspended a woman after a video circulated of her calling the police on a man who had asked her to put her dog on a leash.

The video showed Amy Cooper, who is white, approaching a man later identified as Christian Cooper, who is black, and threatening to call the police. (It is a coincidence that the two have the same surname.)

She asked him to stop filming her and said she would call the police to report an "African American man threatening my life," which she then did. The police responded but ultimately took no action.

The video started a firestorm on social media, which led Amy Cooper to apologize in a statement to NBC New York. She was also suspended from her job.

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The company is Franklin Templeton Investments.