Cooper made headlines in May when she called the cops on Black bird watcher Christian Cooper in Central Park after he asked her to leash her dog.
. Not only did she refuse, but she also went on to call the cops on Mr. Cooper. Now, she’s facing misdemeanor charges.that Ms. Cooper has been indicted in connection with the viral encounter. “Today, our office initiated a prosecution of Amy Cooper for falsely reporting an incident in the third degree,” said Cyrus R. Vance, the Manhattan district attorney. “We are strongly committed to holding perpetrators of this conduct accountable.
According to the district attorney’s office, Ms. Cooper will be arraigned on October 14. If convicted, she could be given a conditional discharge or, instead of serving jail time, be sentenced to community service and/or counseling. The confrontation between Mr. Cooper and Ms. Cooper took place on Memorial Day. Mr. Cooper, an avid bird watcher, came across Mrs. Cooper in the Ramble — a semi-wild section of Central Park popular for bird-watching. In a Facebook post after the incident, which he recorded, Mr. Cooper explained that Mrs. Cooper’s dog was “tearing through the plantings.” Given it is against the law for dogs to go unleashed in the Ramble, he asked her to restrain her dog.
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