Amy Cooper,
the woman who went viral last year
during the pandemic because she
decided to call 911 on a black
birdwatcher who just simply asked
her to put her dog on a leash.
And by the way, you can see how she
was handling her dog in that video.
She was so offended that he asked
her to do something that she was
supposed to do,
that she called the cops on him and
made a false report in that call.
Well now, it looks like she's
really learned a lesson from that
whole experience.
Because she has now filed
a discrimination complaint for
her employer who had fired her
after the video of the whole
incident went viral.
I'm going to give you some details
about that lawsuit in just
a minute.
But I want to remind you all of
what that whole incident was like,
take a look.
>> Would you please stop?
Sir, I'm asking you to stop.
>> Please don't come close to me.
>> Sir, I'm asking you to
stop recording me because you are.
>> Please don't come close to me.
>> Please put your phone off.
>> Please don't come close to me.
>> Then I'm taking a picture and
calling the cops.
>> Please call the cops,
please call the cops.
>> I'm going to tell them there's
an African-American man
threatening my life.
>> Please tell them
whatever you like.
>> Excuse me.
I'm sorry, I'm in the Ramble, and
there is a man, African-American,
he's a birdwatcher,
he's recording me and
threatening me and my dog.
There is an African American man,
I am in Central Park,
he's recording me and
threatening myself and my dog.
I'm sorry, I can't hear you either,
I'm been threatened by a man into
the Ramble,
please send the cops immediately.
I'm in Central Park in the Ramble,
I don't know.
>> Thank you.
>> So, after Franklin Templeton,
her former employer saw that video
where she's making a false report,
she had been charged with that.
And she's also abusing her dog,
let me just note that.
They decided to fire her, and now
she's saying that the termination
has to do with discrimination.
The lawsuit alleges that
Franklin Templeton perpetuated and
legitimized the story of 'Karen'
versus an innocent African-American
who its perceived advantage with
reckless disregard for
the destruction of plaintiff's life
in the process, and
charges that the company would
not have fired her if she were
a different race and gender.
By the way, the man that she made
a false report on, he could
have pressed charges but he decided
against it, and wanted everyone to
kind of leave her alone because
understandably people were piling
on when that video went viral.
>> She characterizes him
this way in her lawsuit.
She says that he had frightened her
to death after quote,
after being selected as the next
target of Christian Cooper,
an overzealous birdwatcher.
She put that in the lawsuit.
>> It's in the lawsuit.
>> Right. >> It's in the lawsuit.
>> Frightened to death
by the overzealous birdwatcher.
And saying that, okay, yeah, and
look, I can't tell you the number
of times I've been afraid for
my life from birdwatchers.
But anyway, it doesn't matter
because you saw the video.
If she pretends that
he's threatening her life, and
specifically says it's
an African-American man,
she's the worst.
>> She's approaching him,
she's approaching him right here.
>> That's right, and
meanwhile, he says,
can you please not touch me.
And in another call, she said that
he assaulted her, and he didn't.
And you see it in the video, right?
She did every single thing wrong
let alone what she's doing to
that poor dog, right?
>> I can't watch her doing that,
can we please come back from
that B roll?
It's just really difficult to watch
her treat the dog that way.
>> And remember, she said that he's
threatening me and
my dog while she's choking the dog.
>> Yeah. >> Okay?
>> Yeah. >> Now,
she's suing for racism and sexism.
So, look, we've covered endless
stories of actual racism and
sexism on this show, and
there is unfortunately thousands
upon thousands of those stories.
And the cause of those stories
are hatched so much by frivolous
nonsense lawsuits like this,
charging racism and
sexism that does not exist, and
may hear a joke out of it.
And trying to enrich yourself
personally by claiming racism and
sexism that it was the exact
opposite of what happened.
It's disgusting, so, but you know
what, people are so greedy,
there's no end to their greed.
After the incident,
she apologized profusely.
>> Can I read her apology actually?
>> Yeah. >> because I think that's
relevant to this lawsuit.
This is the final graphic in
the story where she says,
it was unacceptable, she's
referring to her own behavior, and
I humbly and fully apologize to
everyone who's seen that video.
Everyone that's been offended,
everyone who thinks of me in
a lower light, and I understand why
they do, I'm not a racist.
I did not mean to harm that man
in any way.
Let's keep in mind that we've seen
countless police shootings
of unarmed black men.
I just think she should have been
aware of the risk
that she was putting his life in.
Anyway, and then she also said,
I think I was just scared.
When you're alone in the Ramble,
you don't know what's happening,
it's not excusable,
it's not defensible.
By the way, he was insanely calm,
insanely calm.
He just asked her to do what she
was supposed to do, especially in
that area where people go for
bird watching,
please put your dog on a leash.
>> And he secondly right,
that's the law.
>> That's the law, exactly.
>> And so she went from humbly
asking for people to forgive her
and saying there's no defense of
it, to now going on the offense and
saying that she's the victim of
racism, she's the victim of sexism.
And that they wouldn't have fired
her if she was any other race or
gender.
>> Yeah.
>> Look, the problem is,
we need this court system for super
legitimate cases of racism and
sexism to protect people, right,
that actually suffer from it.
And that is overwhelming majority
of cases.
But greedy,
selfish people like this take
advantage of the system and think,
I'm just going to get paid, because
I'm going to sue them, and it's
going to cost them a lot of money.
And so they're going to have to pay
me, and they're going to give me
a settlement if I just bother
them enough.
And it doesn't matter how
outlandish my charges are,
it doesn't matter how frivolous my
lawsuit is.
No, Amy, it does matter.
>> Yeah.
>> And now if we weren't sure you
were a terrible person before,
thank you for confirming it.
So your apology obviously meant
nothing at all, and
this is who you actually are.