I am not Canadian and I am in my late 60’s.
Before I started writing on this topic at all I did an internet search and read ~5 articles and looked at the people.
Nothing but good to find on Cooper(male) a bit of a geek, probably gay, has an excellent work & educational background, interest in birding decades long, active as an officer well spoke of at Marvel Comics by co-workers, at the Audubon Society.
Cooper(ms)
Amy Cooper who called police on black birdwatcher Christian Cooper on Monday in the now infamous viral video, filed her lawsuit against Martin Priest in 2015. But it’s a “false” claim they were lovers, Priest told the Daily News Wednesday. Priest said Amy developed a “fascination” with him when they worked together at Lehman Brothers and filed her lawsuit against him in 2015 with “fabricated” claims.
“I never had a romantic relationship with her, period. She purposely engineered false allegations against me. And she made up allegations targeting my family’s physical safety,” Priest told The News.
Priest claimed the asset manager developed romantic feelings for him and began “stalking” and “harassing” him when those feelings went unrequited, leading him to report her to the police twice, once in New Jersey and once in New York City. The Post confirmed that reports were made in both jurisdictions. “The longer I avoided her, the angrier she got,” Priest alleged.
https://nypost.com/2020/05/28/amy-cooper-once-slammed-friend-for-voting-for-obama/
NYPD is looking at charging her for a false call.
https://nypost.com/2020/05/29/nypd-discussing-charges-for-central-park-karen-amy-cooper-with-da/
When a viral video of a white woman calling cops on a black man “threatening” her in Central Park swept across social media Monday, two New York City dog walkers immediately recognized the main players in the racially charged altercation — the woman, and her pooch.
Lindsey Cork, 31, and Kyle Stover, 30, knew her identity: Amy Cooper, of the Upper West Side. But would giving it up be the right thing to do?
Stover, who used to walk Cooper’s dog, Henry, and saw the video first, reached out to Cork, who had also walked Henry in the past. Together, they made a decision.
“She helped me realize that we kind of need to call people out on these actions and speak out about this to show that New York does not stand for this kind of action,” Stover told the New York Daily News Tuesday.
“We’ve seen so many videos of people being shot or killed for less, and that’s terrifying, and like she either doesn’t understand the weight of her actions or words or she does, both of which are terrible,” he said.
“When you look at a black person in a situation like that and say, ‘I’m going to call the police and tell them a black man is threatening me,’ at the end of the day, the message is, ‘You’re inconveniencing me or upsetting me, so I’m going to put your life at risk,’ ” she said.
Thank you for that post. It looks like good work to show that she is an an unliked ass, and it’s probably true. I have no doubt that she became unhinged in this confrontation.
I have trouble finding his “goodness” in baiting her dog to him with treats he brought along for that purpose, while telling her she “wasn’t going to like what he did” or whatever he said that he made sure was not recorded. The best I can come up with is that he came up with not a very good way to deal with a problem he saw with unleashed dogs.
Neither party, here, seems “good” so no good is going to come of this.
I have difficulty with the “race” angle, here, since he appears to have initiated the confrontation. But, race is obviously the only story here, according to the press.
Oh?
Based on what?