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'Central Park Karen' Who Called Cops On Black Bird-Watcher Continues To Play Victim
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“I don’t know that as a woman alone in a park that I had another option," said Amy Cooper, who definitely had other options.
A white woman who went viral last year after video showed her calling the police on a Black bird-watcher in New York’s Central Park now says she had no other choice. “I don’t know that as a woman alone in a park that I had another option” but to call police, Cooper told host Kmele Foster in an episode of the “Honestly” podcast released Tuesday. The May 2020 incident occurred after Cooper was caught on video telling Christian Cooper (no relation) that she would call the cops after he asked her to leash her dog in the section of the park known as the Ramble, where leashes are required. Christian Cooper was bird-watching at the time.More Related News