Posted on 05/26/2021 5:37:28 PM PDT by simpson96
The white woman who was recorded on video calling police to claim that a Black bird-watcher was threatening her in New York City's Central Park last year filed suit against her former employer, alleging that the company did not properly consider her fear for personal safety prior to firing her.
Amy Cooper filed a federal complaint against investment management company Franklin Templeton on Tuesday, alleging that the company terminated her based on her race and gender while also failing to properly investigate the viral incident that made national headlines. The lawsuit, filed exactly a year after the Central Park confrontation, requests a jury trial.
Franklin Templeton characterized the lawsuit's claims as “baseless” in a statement Wednesday and plans to defend itself.
“We believe the circumstances of the situation speak for themselves and that the Company responded appropriately,” the statement said.(snip)
“Following our internal review of the incident in Central Park yesterday, we have made the decision to terminate the employee involved, effective immediately," Franklin Templeton said in a statement. "We do not tolerate racism of any kind at Franklin Templeton."
Amy Cooper alleges in her lawsuit that Franklin Templeton failed to launch a legitimate investigation into the matter and its public statement added legitimacy to the “Karen” narrative.(snip)
The complaint filed Tuesday to the Southern District of New York alleges that “even a perfunctory investigation” would have shown that Amy Cooper did not shout at Christian Cooper “because she was a racist,” but because “she was alone in the park and frightened to death.” The lawsuit goes on to characterize Christian Cooper as “an overzealous birdwatcher engaged in Central Park’s ongoing feud between birdwatchers and dog owners.”
(Excerpt) Read more at nbcnews.com ...
sooooooooooooo a woman and man arguing in NYC outside of work time means the company should fire her?
lol
okkkkaaaaaaay little woke buddy. have a nice day.
I could walk around NYC and see all kind of fights like this on the streets, and a lot of “white bitch” this and that too spouting off from POC. Yet...................................................
SO WHAT? This is IRRELEVANT to her work/job.
You are supporting communism called “cancel culture”
Why not? When I was growing up there were huge flocks of them. Black birds and rice kept many a poor bastard from starving to death.
Some people are just too stupid to live. If it wasn’t for other people taking care of them.......
Where exactly did I say her firing was warranted?
I said she was 100% in the wrong in having her dog off-leash. What her employer did was nowhere mentioned nor condoned in my post.
Nice case of projection. Your leftist friends have taught you well.
Well, snarky does seem to suit. Have the day you deserve.
She is an actual racist. I dont mind an actual racist who outed themselves, and tried to get someone she hates swatted by cops, which is a crime in itself, fired. You want that at your company? As a representative face of your company?
Further if shes “at will” they need zero explanation to let her go, it can be for ANY reason. One you agree with, or one you don’t.
That is the new style, I think AP does it. It is spreading, as I have seen it lately.
“ A black birdwatcher? I’m not buying it.”
Ugh...I watch black birds.
So by your logic any woman who voluntarily put herself in a car alone or in a parking lot alone or a drive through alone deserves what she got.
Is this what you're saying?
Are you a racist too?
> That’s now officially part of the AP style guide. Details here.
AP says it will capitalize Black but not white
By DAVID BAUDER
July 20, 2020
NEW YORK (AP) — After changing its usage rules last month to capitalize the word “Black” when used in the context of race and culture, The Associated Press on Monday said it would not do the same for “white.”
The AP said white people in general have much less shared history and culture, and don’t have the experience of being discriminated against because of skin color.
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nope you are totally taking it out of context, on purpose, i believe
LIBTARD women who are racist and claim to be “scared” do not have the right to attempt to use the police to SWAT people
THAT is exactly what i am saying
you have a real good day now
these utter libtard morons have no knowledge of european history, nor the history of this country and the various problems “white” immigrants ran into
italians, irish,
they fail to remember raiding parties from muslims along european coasts that ransacked and took whites as slaves
they forget the entire hostory of europe, serfdom, poverty, wars that the average people suffered under the most, the various plagues
Cripes you’d think we had the world handed to us
We worked gard to gain knowledge and goods and rights
it took many hundreds of years, nobility didn’t give them voluntarily overnite and poof, we are all equal
such idiots framing history from libtard marxist lay-z-boy recliners
go to hell
Why do you think its okay for a company to fire a woman because of a mobile video shows her being bitchy with a black man...NOT CALLING HIM A RACIAL SLUR or PHYSICALLY ATTACKING HIM?
You are a low life who supports Marxist bullshit you call “cancel culture”.
awwwww you’re just too dumb to debate a point and revert to calling poeple racists because that’s what you loons on the left always do
you’re in a cult..seek help
please give me evidence that she is “an actual racist”
thanks
The White woman is insane.
The black dude did nothing wrong.
The Company that fired that White woman though is part of why “cancel culture” is so dangerous.
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thank you!! this is what some race hustling morons right here on this thread can’t seem to understand. You don’t give up your freedom or condone bad policy by companies or government agencies over YOUR BUTT HURT FEELINGS. Do you know how many arguments take place like this all over the streets of NYC everyday? This woman is a flake but her company was dead ass wrong in firing her over nothing to do with her job.
Same people who co-sign this make me side eye who they really are on this site...same people who say “Conservatives should just start their own internet instead of worrying about being shutdown all over the place online”
Idiots or leftist trolls? You decide! All I know is if they are truly conservatives it explains why we have lost our culture ...cowards.
He’s got issues...same with a few others in this thread. they do not see the crux of why this woman being fired over something like this BAD NEWS FOR ALL OF US. they are clearly harboring resentments
just read any story that ran about this back then, pretty clear
for exampke
https://www.cnn.com/2020/10/14/us/amy-cooper-central-park-racism/index.html
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