Christian Cooper: “It’s not really about her and her poor judgment in a snap second... It’s about the underlying current of racism and racist perception that has been going on for centuries and that permeates the city and this county that she tapped into.”
Cooper told NBC News on Tuesday that he kept filming because he didn't want to"dehumanize" himself by giving in to what he considered an attempt at"racial intimidation," a point he reiterated Thursday on"The View."
"I don't know if I'm comfortable with defining someone by a couple of seconds of what they've done," he said. ."I want to apologize to Chris Cooper for my actions when I encountered him in Central Park yesterday. I reacted emotionally and made false assumptions about his intentions when, in fact, I was the one who was acting inappropriately by not having my dog on a leash," the apology said. I am well aware of the pain that misassumptions and insensitive statements about race cause and would never have imagined that I would be involved in the type of incident that occurred with Chris.
The altercation started as a disagreement between a dog owner and a birdwatcher, he said, but"then she took it to a very dark place, and I think she's got to sort of examine why and how that happened."
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