pic.twitter.com/3YnzuATsDmA white woman called the police and accused a Black man of threatening her and her dog in New York City’s Central Park, as seen in now-viral footage posted to social media on Monday. The man said the confrontation began when he asked her to put her dog on a leash. The footage was published on Facebook by the man, Christian Cooper, and on Twitter by his sister, Melody Cooper. “I’m going to tell them there’s an African American man threatening my life,” she says. Christian Cooper said the dog was “tearing through the plantings in the Ramble” when he asked the woman to leash her pet.

Source: Huffington Post May 26, 2020 03:35 UTC