Amy Cooper, the New York City woman who called the cops on Black bird-watcher Christian Cooper back in May, has been charged with filing a false police report, but the alleged victim of her actions has now revealed that he does not plan to cooperate with the Manhattan district attorney.
The Manhattan District Attorney’s Office announced Monday that it had “initiated a prosecution of Amy Cooper for Falsely Reporting an Incident in the Third Degree” and would be “strongly committed to holding perpetrators of this conduct accountable.”
The new case against Amy Cooper stems from her May 25 encounter with Christian Cooper, a Black bird-watcher who reminded her of the leash law in Central Park’s Ramble while her dog was unleashed. A video of the incident immediately went viral as a representation of the weaponization of white womanhood and led to her firing from investment firm Franklin Templeton.
“On the one hand, she’s already paid a steep price,” Christian Cooper said in a statement to the New York Times, just one day after the Manhattan DA’s announcement. “That’s not enough of a deterrent to others? Bringing her more misery just seems like piling on.”
In addition to the false reporting charge and her firing, Amy Cooper voluntarily surrendered her dog to the Abandoned Angels Cocker Spaniel Rescue Inc. in New York. However, the rescue organization returned the dog to her last month.
“I’m not a racist. I did not mean to harm that man in any way,” Cooper told CNN on May 26, adding that her “entire life is being destroyed right now.”
“It reinforces the idea that justice can only be found in the disastrous carceral system we’ve created,” she said, speaking of the US legal and judicial system.
She posed a final question to Americans calling for police reform: “Why do we believe this racist, violent system can be the solution to racism and violence?”
“Her racist behavior could have had dire consequences for a Black man,” he wrote on Twitter on Monday. “Glad she’ll face consequences of her own.”
Sourse: sputniknews.com
