Yeah, you need to take a hike
Fired investment banker insists she’s ‘not racist’
For Central Park Karen (a.k.a. Amy Cooper), life as she knew it is officially over.
The University of Waterloo graduate and Canadian citizen had an epic meltdown in New York’s Central Park and the whole ugly episode went viral with millions of views.
A quivering Cooper called the cops on a black birdwatcher, Harvard graduate Christian Cooper (no relation), after he asked her to leash her dog.
Central Park Karen, as she is now and will forever be known, was then obliterated on social media.
On Tuesday, she told CNN that her “entire life is being destroyed."
The investment banker is now asking the public’s forgiveness for her maniacal behaviour.
“I’m not a racist. I did not mean to harm that man in any way,” she told CNN.
“(My) entire life is being destroyed right now.”
Video of the exchange between the Coopers went viral and few had any sympathy for the Canadian woman. And by Tuesday, things had become a good deal worse for the headstrong heckler.
She was fired from her job with investment giant Franklin Templeton.
Amy Cooper also surrendered her dog to Abandoned Angels Cocker Spaniel Rescue after she was accused on social media of animal cruelty for grabbing and dragging her unhappy pooch.
The birding brouhaha kicked off Monday in an area of the famed park called the Ramble. Christian Cooper had asked Central Park Karen to put her dog on a leash. When she didn’t, the man offered the cute canine a treat.
But the woman claimed she felt threatened because she didn’t know what the man’s dog treats were made from.
Then, she called the cops.
In the video, taken by the birder’s sister, she tells 911: “There is an African-American man. He is recording me and threatening my dog.”
Amy Cooper said she was simply afraid.
“I think I was just scared,” she told CNN. “When you’re alone in the Ramble, you don’t know what’s happening. It’s not excusable, it’s not defensible.”
Christian Cooper told the network he believed it was “important” to document the encounter.
“Unfortunately, we live in an era with things like Ahmaud Arbery, where black men are seen as targets,” he said.
“This woman thought she could exploit that to her advantage and I wasn’t having it.”
He said he would accept her apology if it was “genuine” and the dog was kept on its leash.
“Then we have no issues with each other,” he said.