Amy Cooper allegedly stalked ex-love interest, slammed him for Obama vote

[Mike 03]

NY POST
Gabrielle Fonrouge
May 28, 2020 | 4:12pm | Updated

The white dog-walker, who called 911 on a black man when he asked her to leash her cocker spaniel in Central Park, allegedly stalked a former love interest and chided him for voting for President Barack Obama, The Post has learned.

Martin Priest, a former friend of Cooper who’s known her since 2003, claimed when he told her he voted for Obama, the first black president of the United States, she slammed his decision, saying she couldn’t “believe” it.

Priest claimed the asset manager developed romantic feelings for him and began “stalking” and “harassing” him when they went unrequited, leading him to report her to the police twice, once in New Jersey and once in New York City. The Post confirmed that reports were made in both jurisdictions.

“The longer I avoided her, the angrier she got,” Priest alleged.

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Cooper rose to international infamy Monday when she was caught on camera telling Christian Cooper, a black birdwatcher, she was going to tell the police an African American man was “threatening my life” after he asked her to leash her dog inside the Central Park Ramble.

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[2naSalit]

1. Sounds like a serial victim.

I saw someplace that she's Canadian, if so, she should be deported.

[lunatica]

2. Stalking is done by very disturbed people

It doesn’t strike people as being very important until they get stalked. It’s damn terrifying because you feel a crazy person who could easily decide to kill you is hunting you. People who’ve never been stalked don’t understand how bad it is. And when it happens to a man it’s considered even less important.

I was stalked by a man when I was in college. Many people actually believed it was romantic. It’s terrifying.

[MaryMagdaline]

6. It is totally terrifying lunatica

My sister was stalked in high school and college. The fact that she had a father and 4 brothers did not deter him. He got ahold of her college schedule and stalked her outside of class. He made the mistake of coming to our house and my older brother threatened his life. He never came back. However, had he been one of those crazies who was on a murder-suicide track, my sister and brother could both have been killed.

I’m so sorry you experienced that nightmare.

[lunatica]

11. He stopped when my male friends confronted him

It took a while for any of my friends to understand. But one did and when he stood up to the guy his friends stood up to back him up. It took a while before I stopped ‘seeing’ him out of the corner of my eye. It was nerve wracking. It leaves you scarred for a while

[MaryMagdaline]

12. +1

[airmid]

21. I have been through the same experience and only escaped from the constant

Stalking when they died. I moved to three different states, thousands of miles apart. It didn’t matter. He found and followed me eventually. I do not feel bad to say that when he wrecked his car while under the influence, I was relieved. It was the 1980’s and the cops didn’t really care what happened.

[lunatica]

35. My experience was in the 1970s

Cops made excuses for the stalker. All he wants is to talk to you. He loves you. Why don’t you just talk to him. Poor guy.

And if a man complained about a woman stalking him he became the laughing stock and ridiculed.

It wasn’t until the young actress was shot and killed by her stalker that laws were passed in California.

[Warpy]

43. Thank Hollywood for making people think it's romantic. It is not.

Stalkers have a delusional state, a fantasy life they've hung somebody's picture on. Any contact both enrages them and gives them unreasonable hope, the former because the target doesn't know the script s/he is supposed to follow; the latter because the stalker clings to any communication, sometimes over radio or TV. The combination of extreme rage and extreme persistence is terrifying.

We finally got an anti stalking law in this state. My case was part of it. The main help I got was from the telephone company.

[stillcool]

3. we need a really, really big group therapy session.

the whole country is going, gone mad.

[shanti]

30. So much undiagnosed mental illness

I hope Biden addresses this when he wins.

[RussBLib]

4. so she's a Republican

what a shocker! I see the right has been quick to label her a liberal.

Who knows? We do know she's a bitch, at least.

[MosheFeingold]

14. Sadly her campaign contrinbutions

Were to Barack Obama, Pete Buttigieg, and John Kerry.

I've often taken heat here for pointing out "liberal" antisemites, but here's a "liberal" anti-black bigot.

[W_HAMILTON]

16. Wrong.

The questionable sources that initially reported that have since been proven wrong. The campaign donations that people were spreading came from someone with a different middle initial and who was listed as being retired.

If you have taken heat from other people in situations such as this, maybe you need to re-check your sources in those cases as well.

[tishaLA]

18. I've always trusted opensecrets

And they show her supporting both Pres. Obama and John Kerry: https://www.opensecrets.org/donor-lookup/results?name=amy+cooper&cycle=&state=NY&zip=&employ=&cand=

[FreeState]

24. There are over 7 people named Amy Cooper in NY

That listing doesn't identify which of them made the donation.

[Salviati]

44. Right, I mean that's a pretty common name

So any hits are going to be inconclusive.

But one should always acknowledge that there are going to be idiots and assholes amongst any group of humans. If we take all of the democrats in the country, am I going to be surprised that we find racists, anti-Semites, or bigots among them? Heck no. Do I believe that they make up a larger proportion of republicans than they do democrats? Absolutely, by far.

[W_HAMILTON]

32. The Amy Cooper in question has a different middle initial than the one at your link.

Furthermore, the Amy Cooper in question is apparently originally from Canada and may not even have held an American citizenship at the time of those donations at your link.

[MosheFeingold]

46. I hope you are correct

But, looking again, I sadly don't think so.

Be very happy to be proved wrong.

[W_HAMILTON]

47. For starters, compare her middle initial in your link to her middle initial in her LinkedIn profile.

[GeoWilliam750]

45. Non-US citizens are specifically prohibited from making US campaign contributions

If she is a dual national, why is she referred to as "Canadian"?

[mopinko]

5. every day on earth is another chance to get it right.

pick up the clue, lady.

[betsuni]

7. But yesterday on "The View," Meghan "both-sides-Obama-did-it-too-MY-FATHER" McCain

went out of her way to call Amy an "active liberal Democrat" who "maxed out" donating to Obama.

[Cha]

40. Wow.. that's weird if meghan Both sides had proof and this

guy said "she chided him for voting for Obama".

Amy Cooper sounds like an active Psycho no matter what else she did.

[11 Bravo]

8. Can we please let her 15 minutes be up?

[LanternWaste]

25. Yeah... turn off the lights and just let the roaches do what they do.

So wearisome and inconvenient to talk about roaches, let alone see them in action... so we tell ourselves the light switch is fame and with such concern, ask everyone to turn it off.

[Brainfodder]

9. She seems nice, bless her heart, and there are good people on both sides?

[Skittles]

10. that gal is in serious need of a mental health evaluation

something is seriously wrong with her that goes beyond racism

[Fresh_Start]

13. Normally you see people defending these idiots by saying

they know them and from their experience the Karens/Chads aren't bigots.

The best thing I saw posted about her was that 'she wasn't usually such a bad pet parent'.

[malaise]

15. Play Misty for Me

Bwaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah! One more lunatic.

[Submariner]

19. Fatal Attraction

"I will not be ignored!!"......and how do you like your boiled rabbit served.

[Blue_true]

22. The scenes at the vacation house in that movie were terrifying. nt

[malaise]

26. Ha

Good choice

[bringthePaine]

17. Brits simplify the twisted wad of nonsense composing such folk: "nutter"

[Blue_true]

20. Sounds like she is a half-cord of bricks short of a load. nt

[dalton99a]

23. The kind of person you want to manage your investment portfolio

[hadEnuf]

27. Another bigoted Republican crackpot.

Who could have foreseen this?

[ecstatic]

28. Yikes. He dodged a bullet. But on the View

the other day, they said that Cooper had donated to Obama? Which is it?

Edited to add: So I just googled the situation, and apparently Cooper also sued a married man who she claimed to have had an affair with!

She claimed in her fraud lawsuit that Priest, 41, struck up a romantic relationship with her that lasted from 2008 until 2012 while hiding the fact he was “still residing with his wife” as a married couple.

When she found out the wife was pregnant, she ended the relationship “while still holding feeling for him,” her complaint states.

Cooper claimed Priest later asked her for $100,000. Priest managed to talk Cooper out of $65,000 in 2014 before divorcing his wife and moving in with the other girlfriend, the lawsuit states.

https://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/manhattan/ny-amy-cooper-sued-married-ex-lover-before-calling-cops-on-black-man-20200527-2htiizslk5ftrdduca3qemxwpq-story.html

People with such extreme levels of drama in their history should try to remain as low key as humanly possible during this social media age!

[dalton99a]

33. "Cooper also claims Priest later threatened her life"

Cooper also claims Priest later threatened her life, warning her she should “keep the f—k out of (his) life” or she “would get hurt."

“The fraud perpetrated against plaintiff by defendant was gross, and involved high moral culpability,” Cooper’s lawsuit says.

The lawsuit was dismissed in March 2018 after all parties failed to appear at back-to-back hearings, online court records show.

[ecstatic]

36. I didn't even notice that part

Was so focused on the 65k etc. But wow. She was most likely lying back then too. SMH!

[JHB]

41. Political donations are unclear, thanks to sloppy amatuer netsleuths...

I'm not fully up to speed on the issue, but it fits a pattern: Hasty people searching for the name on Opensecrets turned up information for that name, but "Amy Cooper" is not exactly a rare, uncommon name, particularly in a densely-populate area line NYC. There is reason to doubt that the Amy Cooper who made those donations is the same Amt Cooper who tried to use the NYPD as her personal thug squad that day in the Ramble.

[Ilsa]

29. So she can't blame her assholery on COVID-19 now.

No sympathy. I wonder how many bodies she's hidden?

[kimbutgar]

31. Meghan McCain on the view today said this woman was a liberal

I guess not!

[bucolic_frolic]

34. Stalkers are a special kind of crazy

or maybe it's just the voices in their heads

[wnylib]

37. Mr. Cooper's willingness

to say that Amy Cooper (no relation) should not have her whole life judged by a moment's bad decision is remarkable.

Her moment of bad decision could have cost him his life considering how cops respond to calls about black men (and even to calls FROM black people).

She made that kind of threat just to gain the upper hand in a dispute in which she was clearly in the wrong. I do not feel any sympathy for the consequences she faces now.

[smirkymonkey]

38. I knew she was psycho just from watching that video of her.

Seriously. My unprofessional armchair diagnosis would be Borderline Personality Disorder. She actually reminds me of someone I know.

Mr. Cooper triggered something in her that was shame based and that caused her highly inappropriate and excessively hysterical reaction to him. That woman has some serious issues. I would bet her co-workers could tell us a few stories.

[warmfeet]

39. You don't like President Barack Obama?

I don't fucking like you!

[Joinfortmill]

42. Why doesn't this surprise me?