“What becomes of all those Amys who don’t get ‘caught’ on video? Amys exist all around us. They could be your boss or your neighbor or your teacher, if disturbed on the wrong day. They know it, and that is the scariest thing,” writes AdrienneNGreen
Photo: @melodyMcooper/Twitter Amy Cooper knew exactly what she was doing. This Memorial Day, she unleashed her dog in a part of Central Park where dogs are supposed to be on leashes. As it tore through the planting, she encountered a black male bird-watcher who asked her to follow the rules lest they scare the birds away.
After demanding that he stop recording, Amy takes several purposeful steps in his direction. When he refuses, and asks that she not come any closer, she then, in a tone that can only be described as whiny and affronted — wait, no, more like the audible version of a child sticking out their tongue in defiance — threatens to call the police.“I’m going to tell them that there is an African-American man threatening my life,” she says, rolling her neck and raising her eyebrows almost gleefully.
In that moment, her dog submits. Amy clips on its leash with one hand and drops the phone with the other. “Thank you,” calls Christian.The video is chilling not because it shows a woman losing her shit but because it revealed that she was aware of the injustices and the systemic racism that threatens black lives and was willing to weaponize it in a heartbeat so that she and her rambunctious dog could have a place to play unchallenged.
“I’m not a racist. I did not mean to harm that man in any way,” she told CNN later on . Amy joins a sorority of may-I-speak-to-your-manager ladies, the ones trying to huff their way into grocery stores without a mask, the “Karens,” as social media has dubbed them. The severity of the instances varies , but they’re connected to the same playbook.
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