Amy Cooper, the White woman who called 911 to claim that a Black birdwatcher had threatened her, lost a lawsuit alleging her former employer had engaged in racist and sexist behavior when it fired her after the incident.
Cooper"cannot plausibly allege that she was subjected to a 'company-wide double standard' merely by identifying three male comparators who engaged in some — other — form of misconduct, but were not similarly fired," Abrams wrote.
"The incident received heightened media and public scrutiny, in particular, because it took place 'in the midst of a national reckoning about systemic racism,'" the judge wrote, noting that Cooper's incident occurred on the same day as George Floyd's murder in Minneapolis. She added,"The contents of the viral video, as well as the dialogue surrounding it both in the media and on social media, were already matters of public knowledge when [Franklin Templeton's] May 26 tweet was posted."
"We are pleased that the court has dismissed the lawsuit. We continue to believe the company responded appropriately," Franklin Templeton said in a statement to CBS MoneyWatch.The incident was sparked by Cooper's calling the police after a Black birdwatcher in Central Park, Christian Cooper , asked her to leash her dog in an area of the park where leashing is required.
In response, she called 911 and repeatedly identified Christian Cooper by his race, demanding that the dispatcher"send the cops immediately" and falsely accusing him of threatening her life. Christian Cooper recorded the verbal dispute on video, which went viral and became part of the national discussion about race during the Black Live Matter movement sparked by Floyd's murder.
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