Amy Cooper, the infamous white woman who called the cops on a Black bird-watcher in 2020, sued her former employer for defamation and lost the case.
As Blavity previously reported, Cooper became known after a video of her calling the police on an innocent Black man who was watching birds in New York’s Central Park went viral during the pandemic.
Christian Cooper, a lover of birds, was innocently enjoying a walk in the park when he came across the ‘Central Park Karen‘ and asked her to put her dog on a leash, a rule and regulation of the park. In response, she became angry and told him she would call the police and tell them he was harassing her.
“I’m going to tell them there’s an African American threatening my life,” the 43-year-old woman said in the viral video shared by The New York Times.
Due to the blatant racism exhibited in the video, her place of employment, Franklin Templeton, shared a statement on social media and fired Cooper.
In response to an incident involving an employee on May 25th, Franklin Templeton issued the following statement. pic.twitter.com/8f2lMwK0r5
— Franklin Templeton (@FTI_US) May 26, 2020
In May 2021, Cooper filed a lawsuit against her ex-employer and accused the company of defamation of character and wrongful termination. According to The Washington Post, she lost the case.
A spokeswoman for Franklin Templeton shared with the Post that the company was happy with the federal judge’s decision to dismiss the case.
“We continue to believe the company responded appropriately,” Franklin Templeton spokeswoman Lisa Gallegos told The Washington Post in an email.
As previously reported by Blavity, all charges regarding Cooper falsely reporting an incident to police were dropped after she completed a restorative justice program in 2021.
