Everybody probably remembers
Amy Cooper, who was the white woman
in Central Park, who managed to
call the cops on a black bird
watcher while also like choking out
her dog, yes, remember her?
She was actually fired from her job
for that incident.
But if there's one thing we
can count on Karen's doing,
it's being litigious AF.
So, Amy Cooper,
white woman who called the police
on a black birdwatcher in Central
Park Last Memorial Day is suing
the company that swiftly fired her
over her controversial incident.
The investment firm said we do not
tolerate racism in
any kind at Franklin Templeton and
the investment board said
that the day after the incident,
it said that it had completed
an internal review and decided to
terminate her effectively.
She says though,
in her federal lawsuit this
week against Franklin Templeton,
the company never investigated the
incident that led to her firing,
the confrontation between her and
Christian Cooper.
Her lawsuit claims that her
employer discriminated against her
because of her race and gender.
Okay, at least she didn't say
reverse racism, but
she felt discriminated against.
Before I get your thoughts Dr.
Richie, I just want to play,
just in case we forgot how sort
of vile this moment was.
Just play that one clip of
Amy Cooper threatening
Christian Cooper.
>> Please don't come close to me.
Please, 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
>> Okay, then she starts to
basically cry,
we've seen this a lot.
So she says,
I'm going to tell them there's
an African American man who's
threatening me in Central Park.
And then she calls the cops and
starts to cry.
And essentially, it sounds
like from her voice that she's in
immediate danger and you can tell
from the video, incredible amount
of distance was never in danger.
Dr. Rashad Ricci,
her company fired her, she's now
filing a lawsuit against them,
what are your thoughts on that?
>> First of all,
that brother would still be in jail
today if he had not had that video.
She weaponize her whiteness,
that should be a hate crime.
She was eventually arrested for
filing a false
police report basically,
and they just dropped the charges
because she took some kind
of racial sensitivity training.
Well, I guess it didn't work.
Because now, the audacity of this
woman, this Karen,
to file a federal freaking lawsuit
and I have to say this.
Because part of the narrative has
been that white women are afraid
of black man, every Karen that we
have seen, these Karen
is not afraid of any of them.
They get in their face,
they curse them out.
They pretend to be afraid for
the sake of making them a criminal,
but there is no fear.
We saw no fear in Central Park,
Karen at all.
So now she's claiming there's
discrimination against her when she
literally tried to take the freedom
of a black man for
doing absolutely nothing illegal.
And she made a false police
report against the individual.
I'm sure this company has what's
called, a morals clause.
This lawsuit will go absolutely
nowhere, and it really doesn't
matter if they involved her in
the investigation or not.
I read some of the claim for
this lawsuit.
And the biggest claim is,
no investigation according to them
was done because they did not
include her.
It is not a requirement to include
you in the investigation,
they can do it as they seem,
as they deem fit, as they see it,
and they did so.
>> Yeah, and I think that the video
very much speaks for itself.
Look, I'm not someone who is like,
we should absolutely be in
the business of getting people
fired from their jobs.
And I don't believe we should be in
the business of making people
forever pariahs, right?
But I also think that,
that was a private company that
made their own decision.
And I don't think that we know,
that's it.
That's their word, if I was in
the same position, I don't know if
I would have done the same thing.
I'm like, maybe it's even letting
her off too easily to just be like
bye, it's not my problem anymore,
but it is very revealing.
And again, we just talked about
diversity in boardrooms, diversity,
especially in like the financial
sector.
Which is probably one of
the least diverse sectors,
which was where she worked.
And imagining being
a black co-worker of Amy Cooper and
having to go to work,
I would feel horribly unsafe to go
to work with someone like that.
And I think this was my favorite
line from her defense because
it speaks to, what she did
was deeper than racism, right?
It was like racism squared.
So she says in her lawsuit,
I don't know which graph this is.
She said she did not call
the police because she was racist,
but because she was alone in
the park and frightened to death
after being selected as the next
target of Christian Cooper.
An overzealous birdwatcher engaged
in central Park's ongoing feud
between birdwatchers and
dog owners.
This is so funny, I love that
there's Central Park beef, and
it has to do with bird watching and
dog owning, but.
She's saying no,
I wasn't, I'm just a victim.
I'm on the dog side,
because clearly she treats the dog
with respect by choking it.
Versus the birdwatchers side, but
she's not racist, but
that's not exactly what Dr.
Richie said.
She wasn't being racist towards
him, but she was weaponizing
racist institutions of policing to
basically sic the police on him.
>> Yeah >> Now, right?
>> Yeah, and she understood
her power very well.
And that's what you have
to notice in that entire dialogue.
She was well aware of how to
weaponize her whiteness.
She was well aware that
these institutions contained
systemic bias that would naturally
criminalize him,
believe her story over his, but
the brother had a recording.
The unsung hero
in all of these cases, but
it speaks to a larger dynamic.
And the larger dynamic is,
you have countless Americans
walking around right now
refusing to challenge that norm.
Refusing to challenge that evil
that exists because at any time,
they can call in their chips and
try to benefit from it.
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