“Central Park Karen” Says She Had No Choice But to Call Cops on Black Birdwatcher

Amy Cooper, the white woman who infamously tried to weaponized the police against a black man who was in NY’s Central Park birdwatching, is finally speaking out.

Dubbed “Central Park Karen” by the media, Cooper now says she had no other choice but to call the cops on Black birdwatcher Christian Cooper, who was not menacing her, even though she lied to police and claimed he was “threatening her life.”

Now well over a year later, Amy Cooper still feels that her actions were necessary, telling the New York Times writer and editor Bari Weiss on a podcast that she felt threatened after the black man offered her dog a treat while carrying a bike helmet.

“I’m trying to figure out, you know, what does that mean? Is that a physical attack on me? Is that to my dog? Like, what is he about to do?… I don’t know that as a woman alone in a park that I had another option.”

Amy claimed that she grew more fearful after Christian changed his “verbal demeanor” during the May 2020 incident.

“It’s really weird because he’s still standing there, you know, same very physical posture, and suddenly out of him comes this voice from [a] man who’s been very dominant towards me. Suddenly, you know, almost this victimized voicing… Like, almost like he’s terrified of me….” Amy Cooper explained.

“To me, that’s even more terrifying now because you’ve gone from screaming at me—if you kept screaming at me, at least it was consistent, but now his whole verbal demeanor has changed,” Amy Cooper said.

The woman is suing her former employer for defamation and claims she now lives in fear of walking her dog because someone may see her coming out of her home and realize that’s where she lives.