Has anyone asked why the man was telling the woman to leash the dog? Was the dog unruly? Barking? Running wild? Or was he being a Black Chad? Frankly, it’s not my business to butt in unless the behavior in question is harming or has the potential to harm those around the person.
Yes.
He’s a birdwatcher, in an area well know for birdwatching, and is such because dogs aren’t supposed to be running off leash there (ground birds).
I’m an avid dog walker and dislike how much area is off limits to dogs, and how much requires a leash, but some areas are inappropriate for dogs.
But since he’s black, and she’s white, I’ll bet at least one person thinks he’s in the wrong.
I love dogs, but I will damned well tell someone to leash their dog if it’s being a nuisance and I’m in an area where dogs are supposed to be leashed. More than one twit has let their mutt take a dump right in the picnic area and gotten indignant when called on it.
The dog was running in an area set aside as a nature area and clearly posted with “No Dogs” signs everywhere. The privileged Karens ignore the leash laws (except for certain enclosed areas, dogs are supposed to be on leash in Central Park) and even the no-dog signs and the police are afraid of them too so they don’t give them citations the way they used to.
This guy was a regular bird watcher in the area, and I thought he had a very good technique for defusing a situation: offer the dog a treat, and then the “dog mommy,” as they call themselves, will run forward and leash the dog and drag it off to prevent it from eating the treat.
She was the one who announced she was going to call the cops and say that an “African American man had threatened to murder her.“
Sort of like the woman here in Florida who drowned her autistic son by pushing him into a canal and then called the cops to say that two black men had stopped her car and taken her child away. Fortunately, there was actually a video from a local camera of her pushing the child into the canal.
And fortunately this man in NYC was smart enough to video Karen threatening him.
Because he was a bird watcher and the dog was keeping the birds away.
She overreacted but he was being annoying busybody.
This area of Central Park is designated as an urban wild life preserve and is very popular with bird watchers. Persons with dogs are allowed in this section of the park called The Rambles, but the dogs must be leashed at all times and are to remain on the walking paths at all times. There are numerous signs posted everywhere that very specifically point out these rules.
She was in violation of these rules and allegedly was allowing her dog to not only run free and unleashed and off the designated walking paths, but also allowing her dog to go into the underbrush which is definitely not allowed as unleashed and unruly dogs and their unruly owners can not only disturb the wildlife including ground nesting birds and other wildlife, but can also kill them.
The man was well within his rights to point out to her that she was violating the rules of the park and also point out to her that on the other side of the path, not all that far away, there was an area of the park that allowed unleashed dogs.
After trying to reason with her, she ignored him and claimed that this was the only place she could let her dog off leash, which was a lie.
This man, an avid and regular bird watcher has encountered dog people like her before and carries dog treats with him, not harm the dogs but to entice them to come to him so he can show their owners that their dogs were not under their control and needed to be leashed.
When this woman got upset that she was challenged for violating the well posted rules, the first thing she did was run up to him and attempt to get in his face so she was obviously not intimated by him or for fear of her life by him, and then play the race card by telling him “I’m going to call the police and tell them that an African American man is threating me”. Why would she tell him specifically that she was going to call the police and tell them that an “African American man” is threatening her if not to imply that a white woman being harassed by a black man might get a beat down the responding cops.
“Has anyone asked why the man was telling the woman to leash the dog?”
This is how I interpreted things:
It’s a leash-only area.
The guy is afraid of dogs, so goes to that area for bird watching.
Her dog was off leash (typical Karen — rules aren’t for Karens).
He asked her to follow the rules.
Brat calls the cops, shrieking, over-acting, and lying. Glad the bitch lost her job.