Amy Cooper, who gained notoriety last year after calling 911 to falsely report former Marvel Comics editor Christian Cooper of committing a crime, has had the misdemeanor charge filed against her (falsely reporting an incident) dropped after Cooper completed a therapeutic educational program that involved instruction about racial biases.

Cooper, a White woman, was walking her dog in Central Park without a leash when Christian Cooper, an African-American man (their last names being the same is just a weird coincidence) there in the park bird watching, informed her that she had to leash her dog. He began recording her as she became belligerent. She told him that she was going to call the cops on him and he stood there as she did just that, telling the 911 operator that “an African-American man is threatening my life."

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The prosecutor in the case, Joan Illuzzi-Orbon, requested that the charges be dropped now that Cooper had completed five therapy sessions focusing on how racial identities shape the lives of people. According to Illuzzi-Orbon, Cooper's therapist claimed that Cooper "learned a lot." Cooper's lawyer, Robert Barnes, thanked the prosecutor and added, “We thank them for their integrity and concur w/ the outcome. Others rushed to the wrong conclusion based on inadequate investigation & they may yet face legal consequences.”

If convicted, Cooper could have faced up to a year in prison. The charges being dropped have drawn criticism on the internet, with New York District Attorney candidate Eliza Orlins noting that she was not surprised that this happened, as “This is how the system was designed to function — to protect the privileged from accountability."

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Christian Cooper, who declined to pursue charges in the case himself, leaving it to the city to decide (as he noted that Cooper, who lost her job in the wake of the incident and received death threats had already paid "a steep price"), responded to the news by stating, “I am far more outraged by the U.S. Congress, which continues to deny the mostly Black and brown people of the District of Columbia statehood, and the representation every American deserves, than by anything Amy Cooper did. That gross racial injustice could be fixed by Congress now, today, and that is what people should be focused on, not last year’s events in Central Park.”

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Source: New York Times