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Nick Knudsen 🇺🇸🇺🇦 @NickKnudsenUSRemember Christian Cooper? The avid bird-watcher and unfortunate victim of Central Park Karen a couple years ago?
Hes getting his own @NatGeo bird watching show.
I couldnt possibly love this more.
Christian Cooper watches distant shorebirds at the Sonny Bono Salton Sea National Wildlife Refuge in California. The National Geographic channel has announced that Cooper will host a series called Extraordinary Birder. Cooper was in the spotlight after a woman in New York City's Central Park called the police and falsely accused him of threatening her in May 2020.
Jon Kroll/National Geographic
https://www.npr.org/2022/05/19/1100203220/christian-cooper-bird-watcher-national-geographic-tv-show
Baitball Blogger
(46,757 posts)Celerity
(43,498 posts)Silent3
(15,265 posts)I didn't see any follow-up from the tweet to explain that.
Celerity
(43,498 posts)The criminal case against Amy Cooper, a white woman who called the police on a Black bird-watcher in Central Park and falsely reported that he had threatened her, was dismissed on Tuesday after Ms. Cooper completed a therapeutic program that included instruction about racial biases.
At a hearing in Manhattan Criminal Court, a senior prosecutor asked a judge to dismiss the single misdemeanor charge against Ms. Cooper falsely reporting an incident and the judge agreed. Ms. Cooper had faced up to a year in jail if convicted.
The resolution of the case without a trial or a guilty plea was for some an anticlimactic ending to an incident that had provoked intense discussions across the country about how Black people are harmed by false reports to the police.
The prosecutor, Joan Illuzzi-Orbon, said Ms. Cooper had participated in five therapy sessions that focused in part on how racial identities shape peoples lives. Her therapist had reported that the sessions were a moving experience and that Ms. Cooper learned a lot, Ms. Illuzzi-Orbon said.
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groundloop
(11,522 posts)I know from personal experience that it's possible to change your world view over time, forty some years ago I had very racist and homophobic friends and totally bought into their bullshit. Thank goodness that over the course of time I've evolved to realize how wrong that was.
Hopefully Ms. Cooper had an awakening.
IronLionZion
(45,528 posts)I hope she's reformed. People were worried she'd harm herself.
llashram
(6,265 posts)on the therapy success of ms Cooper. If she was a racist then, she is a racist now and chomping at the bit to vote for her fuhrer d. trump again.
Hortensis
(58,785 posts)before final disposition served a court-ordered counseling program, which she likely also had to pay for.
Let's hope her punishment was as hurtful and awakening as it sounds, or at least dissuading. If she despicably tries to frame another innocent victim in future the DA's office will have her previous record to consider.
Celerity
(43,498 posts)not true
Amy Cooper, Who Falsely Accused Black Bird-Watcher, Has Charge Dismissed
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/02/16/nyregion/amy-cooper-charges-dismissed.html
The criminal case against Amy Cooper, a white woman who called the police on a Black bird-watcher in Central Park and falsely reported that he had threatened her, was dismissed on Tuesday after Ms. Cooper completed a therapeutic program that included instruction about racial biases.
At a hearing in Manhattan Criminal Court, a senior prosecutor asked a judge to dismiss the single misdemeanor charge against Ms. Cooper falsely reporting an incident and the judge agreed. Ms. Cooper had faced up to a year in jail if convicted.
The resolution of the case without a trial or a guilty plea was for some an anticlimactic ending to an incident that had provoked intense discussions across the country about how Black people are harmed by false reports to the police.
The prosecutor, Joan Illuzzi-Orbon, said Ms. Cooper had participated in five therapy sessions that focused in part on how racial identities shape peoples lives. Her therapist had reported that the sessions were a moving experience and that Ms. Cooper learned a lot, Ms. Illuzzi-Orbon said.
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Hortensis
(58,785 posts)in favor of the typical equal and proportional justice meted out for those who are charged out of thousands of attempted framings each year in NYC alone.
It wasn't a "dismissal" as in deciding charges weren't warranted.
MissMillie
(38,579 posts)That's what I call justice.
KS Toronado
(17,317 posts)Hortensis
(58,785 posts)Nay
(12,051 posts)Talitha
(6,613 posts)NNadir
(33,544 posts)AllaN01Bear
(18,384 posts)hamsterjill
(15,224 posts)Best of luck to him! May he do well and enjoy himself.
crickets
(25,983 posts)calimary
(81,466 posts)Sounds like a happy ending to me.
Emile
(22,912 posts)MontanaMama
(23,337 posts)May this heinous woman get acquainted with more karmic justice in her life.
bigtree
(86,005 posts)Skittles
(153,193 posts)Icanthinkformyself
(220 posts)It makes a difference. Ignorance can be 'cured' with education/information. Stupidity is forever. She will be back in the news for not a good reason at some point in her life, 'cause learning is for other people, not her.
But, good things do, sometimes happen to and for good people. I wish Mr. Cooper well.