Amy Cooper, the white woman who called the cops on a Black birdwatcher in Central Park last year, is suing her former employer for discrimination.
The suit, filed Tuesday in federal court in Manhattan, accuses Franklin Templeton of failing to adequately investigate the confrontation before it fired her and for implying Cooper was racist in its public statements on the matter.
Cooper maintains the global investment firm “created and nurtured” the false notion that she was a “privileged white female ‘Karen’” after video of her run-in with Christian Cooper (no relation) went viral.
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The woman called police after reportedly being asked to leash her dog, darkly warning the birdwatcher that she was “going to tell them there’s an African American man threatening my life.”
The two were in an area of Central Park known as the Ramble, where dogs are required to be leashed.
Franklin Templeton fired Cooper the next day, announcing the decision along with a statement that “we do not tolerate racism of any kind.”
That tweet ― and the short nature of Templeton’s investigation ― figures heavily in her suit.
Source: Woman Who Called Cops On Black Birdwatcher Sues Former Employer
