Update 02/16/2021 12:15pm:
In 2020, a woman named Amy Cooper, also known as “Central Park Karen,” was seen on camera calling the police on a Black man who simply asked the woman to put her dog on a leash. The incident went viral and led to Cooper’s arrest along with misdemeanor charges. Now, news surfaced noting the Manhattan District Attorney’s Office dropped the misdemeanor charge against Cooper after she completed therapy and education classes related to racial equity.
Assistant DA Joan Illuzzi issued a statement saying, “Given the issues at hand and Ms. Cooper's lack of criminal background, we offered her, consistent with our position on many misdemeanor cases involving a first arrest, an alternative, restorative justice resolution; designed not just to punish but to educate and promote community healing.”
The statement noted that Cooper was charged with falsely reporting an incident in the third degree and that the motion to dismiss the charge was granted by a judge.
source: CNN
Original 05/25/2020 9:15pm:
The latest iteration of Karen popped up in New York City's Central Park as a white woman called the police on a black man after being asked to put a leash on her dog. The man apparently began recording after their initial interaction and picks up where the woman is putting a leash on the dog. She walks over to him and asks him to stop recording to which he refused.
As the man continued recording, she said that she would be calling the police and "tell them there's an African-American man threatening my life." He told her to call the police as he kept recording the incident. The woman then gets through to an emergency operator and proceeds to scream and yell as though she was being attacked.
When officers arrived, neither party was present, therefore no arrests or citations were made.
Source: twitter.com
