Source: @melodyMcooper / Twitter
The egregious most recent addition to the growing number of “Karen” videos showing white women trying to criminalize law-abiding Black people during the coronavirus pandemic has resulted in swift justice as the person holding the camera offered a timely reference to Ahmaud Arbery for why he was so quick to record her.
Amy Cooper was identified as the “Karen” who on Monday appeared to be feigning mortal fear from a Black man who simply asked her to comply with New York City law and put her dog on a leash in a portion of Central Park where bird-watching is popular.
“Karen” responded to the request from Christian Cooper (obviously no relation) by calling the police while clumsily putting a leash on her dog, which the video showed being dragged, lifted and possibly choked by the tether.
Karen then, of course, resorts to the familiar go-to move for distressed white women in the presence of Black men and said she would “call the cops,” something that Christian Cooper quickly encouraged her to do.
“We live in an age of Ahmaud Arbery where black men are gunned down because of assumptions people make about black men, black people, and I’m just not going to participate in that,” Christian Cooper told NBC New York.