Posted on 05/26/2020 1:32:43 PM PDT by SJackson
A black man says he asked a white woman in Central Park to put her dog on a leash.
Then, video shows her calling police and telling emergency operators that the man was threatening her and her dog. The woman, who has been identified as Amy Cooper, has apologized. But by Tuesday afternoon she was fired from her job at an investment management firm.
"Following our internal review of the incident in Central Park yesterday, we have made the decision to terminate the employee involved, effective immediately. We do not tolerate racism of any kind at Franklin Templeton," the company said in a statement posted to Twitter.
Well, although I think she’s screwed, and rightfully so, Toad does have a point- this is New York; I don’t know the employment law there, but it’s probably written to benefit lawyers rather than companies or employees :-)
Au contraire. That was the smartest thing for him to do. She’s a wacko and she would have not hesitated to have lied about what happened if it wasn’t on tape. If she wanted not to be filmed all she had to do was walk away.
It just seems rational that there would be a civilian version of "conduct unbecoming"; this would describe a situation where one's actions are so far beyond the pale of acceptable behavior that an employer is well within its rights to terminate the individual's employment. It might be a reputational risk to the firm, it might be something that raises serious doubts about someone's judgment, it might be tied to someone's place within the firm, et cetera.
It really wasn’t a threat. I’m going to do what I want & you won’t like it could have meant he would start to sing loudly off key. He called her dog, all she had to do was put the dog on the lead and there is no issue, no threat, the dogs movement would be constrained couldn’t go to him. Not much of a threat. More a way to manipulate her into obeying the rules without getting unpleasant.
“What the heck?”
Does doesn’t look good all the way around.
It seems an extreme price to pay.
And yes the dog should have been leashed for many reasons.
Because one of the ways people threaten a dog these days is to offer it a dog biscuit. < /s> .
Try again..
Even protective state laws generally will allow an employer to fire an at-will employee if keeping them on would create a conflict of interest or hurt the employer’s business. For example, forcing people to work next to someone who has threatened women or people of other races could be seen as creating a hostile work environment. Also, your customers may be reluctant to do business with your company if they must deal with such a person.
And then she calls them and tries to make it sound like a dangerous black man needs to come get a good beatdown. Given that those four cops in Minneapolis just became famous for crushing a black guy's neck until he died in the street, she picked a bad day to say "the police are racist and I'm going to sic them on YOU."
I posted about it down thread, even in NY she is scrod
For example, forcing people to work next to someone who has threatened women or people of other races could be seen as creating a hostile work environment. Also, your customers may be reluctant to do business with your company if they must deal with such a person.
Yep. And I notice that camera held perfectly still while he filmed her. He clearly made no moves at all.
Hell, just simply realizing that you have on your staff a person with such terrible judgment, regardless of if you hate birds, dogs, black people, Karens, or Chads. Being an idiot is not a protected class unless one is a politician or MSM journalist; bad judgment, such as calling the cops and escalating instead of just putting a leash on the dog is not something you want at a fancy financial firm.
What is this supposed to mean
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That’s what the man said to the woman. Thanks for making the point that she felt threatened just like you.
Someone who uses racism because “it reflects on her understanding of reality” is still a racist.
BEFORE the filming started he told her he was going to do something and she was not going to like it.
Do you think a woman should consider that a compliment from a man she is arguing with that she has never met before in a park? The man never would have said that to another man. He knew he was threatening a woman. And that’s why she was so upset in the video. I am a man. If I was there and heard that I would not have left until I was certain the woman was safe.
Again, he would not have said that to a man. He said it to a woman and meant it as a threat.
Yep, if she was really scared she would have ran away and not toward the guy. You can hear her fake outrage and out of breathness on her call. She was so staging that against that guy, typical liberal Karen snowflake. She should get arrested
Kinda strange your attitude towards that woman. She bears no responsibility for breaking the rules, for being rude and disturbing the wildlife in the refuge, no responsibility for replying rudely to a man who asked her nicely to leash her dog or use a nearby spot that was allowed. She can lift and drag her dog by the neck like the bully she is and walk freely all around the area.
But she is a fragile flower who is terrified when the man says if you can do what you want I can too & you won’t like it.
Fastest transformation from a stone cold b*t*h to a snowflake I have ever seen. And because she doesn’t want to obey the rules she threatens the guy that since he’s black she’s going to call the police and accuse him of assault and everyone will believe her.
Have you ever consider that if another man was there he might have told her to put the leash on the dog and stop trying to start a fracas?
Well, I suppose I’m one of those who doesn’t allow the racism to color my judgement. Nor does it bother me when posters deliberately misrepresent my post. Again, for the slow people, if you’re playing to win then you use all the tools. Was she wrong to do it? Perhaps. But it doesn’t prove her to be a racist. It proves only that she believed the cops were racist.
>> but the guy, he was also a tattletale
I can see that being a trait of a bird watcher...
The sentence just didn't fit the rest of the post and I asked for clarification; there's nothing to read into.
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