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White Woman Placed On Administrative Leave From Her Job After Viral Video Shows Her Calling The Police On A Black Man & Falsely Accusing Him Of Threatening Her Life

<p>Whew&comma; chile the audacity&excl; A white woman has gone viral on social media after a video showed her calling the police on a man and falsely accusing him of threatening her life&comma; although he video clearly showed he was not threatening her life&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>According to <em><a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;www&period;nbcnews&period;com&sol;news&sol;us-news&sol;white-woman-calls-nypd-after-black-man-asks-her-put-n1214531">NBC News<&sol;a><&sol;em>&comma; the woman in the video has been identified as Amy Cooper&period; She was in New York’s Central Park on Monday with her dog and allowing her dog to run around without a leash&period; The man who recorded the video&comma; and who was falsely accused has been identified as Christian Cooper &lpar;no relation&rpar;&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Christian had been in the park bird watching when he noticed that the dog had been running free&period; He simply asked the woman to place her dog on the leash&comma; as the rules regulated&period; She refused and that’s when the theatrics began&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>In the video&comma; Amy could be seen telling Christian&comma; &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;I’m going to tell them there’s an African American man threatening my life&period;” She proceeded to do so&comma; and the video clearly showed that she had not been threatened by Christian&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Christian’s sister&comma; Melody Cooper uploaded the video to her Twitter and said&comma; &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;Oh&comma; when Karens take a walk with their dogs off leash in the famous Bramble in NY’s Central Park&comma; where it is clearly posted on signs that dogs MUST be leashed at all times&comma; and someone like my brother &lpar;an avid birder&rpar; politely asks her to put her dog on the leash&period;”<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><amp-twitter data-tweetid&equals;"1264965252866641920" layout&equals;"responsive" width&equals;"600" height&equals;"480"><&sol;amp-twitter><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&nbsp&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Christian later spoke with NBC News about the incident and said&comma; &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;If the habitat is destroyed&comma; we won’t be able to go there to see the birds&comma; to enjoy the plantings&period; At some point&comma; she decided I’m gonna play the race card&comma; I guess&period;”<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>He continued&comma; &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;We live in an age of <em><a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;dev&period;theshaderoom&period;com&sol;ahmaud-arbery-a-black-jogger-was-chased-down-and-shot-to-death-in-georgia-two-months-later-no-arrests-have-been-made&sol;">Ahmaud Arbery<&sol;a><&sol;em> where black men are gunned down because of assumptions people make about black men&comma; black people&comma; and I’m just not going to participate in that&period;”<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>The video has been viewed millions of times&comma; and as you can imagine&comma; Amy is receiving backlash for her actions&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Her employer&comma; investment management company Franklin Templeton&comma; also issued a statement where they revealed she has been placed on administrative leave&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><amp-twitter data-tweetid&equals;"1265111264335986689" layout&equals;"responsive" width&equals;"600" height&equals;"480"><&sol;amp-twitter><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>In the end&comma; 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