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In reply to the discussion: Amy Cooper: New York Woman Calls Police on Black Man Who Asked Her to Leash Dog [View all]Boomer
(4,170 posts)The man video-taping her clearly asked her to step AWAY from him, so she is very obviously not being attacked. The only "threat" he made was to call her dog over with a treat, and as he predicted, that made her livid. Apparently (according to another article I read today), he often used that tactic to pressure dog owners to leash their dogs. That's a very clever, non-aggressive way to prod them into compliance with the leash laws.
She was pissed off that her freedom to ignore the law was being called out. And she immediately recognized that she could take control of the situation by trading on white privilege. She invoked the oldest, most vicious racist trope in the book: A black man is attacking a white woman.
What she did was a crime -- false report, frivolous use of 911 -- and immoral as hell.