Man asked woman to leash her dog in a public park -- she called the police on him

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Anonymous wrote:Last post: the precious birds are up in the trees, far from that little dog. If they had the sense to fly thousands of miles I bet they had the sense to avoid a small dog.

Bye. Don't forget to follow leash laws.

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Anonymous wrote:Question - I'm assuming there would not be this amount of outrage (or any at all) if she had not called the police? Or if she hadn't referred to him as 'African American'? What if she had just said 'F U, I'll do what I want and won't leash my dog' (asshole move for sure, but things like this surely happen every day among people of all races). I'm just trying to differentiate between racist behavior and being a run of the mill asshole (I am white, but have both been the asshole and had others of all races be the asshole to me throughout my life).

This may sound ignorant but I'm trying to understand.

She knew exactly what she was doing by saying "I'm going to tell them that an AFRICAN AMERICAN MAN is threatening me". Then she said it again, before calling the police and claiming that he - excuse me, that an AFRICAN AMERICAN MAN, was threatening her and her dog. In normal circumstances where there is conflict and someone feels strongly that they need police intervention/help, they call and explain what is happening. The operator will then ask for a description of the other party/suspect/perpetrator. By premeditating her fake distress and preempting the description, she planned to turn a very busy police department into a weapon by falsely claiming to be threatened by a *gasp* BLACK man. She was hoping that she would be seen as an innocent white woman who was being attacked in Central Park by a black man who would cause her harm. What she didn't know that she was getting was a Harvard grad who is on the Board of Directors of the Audobon Society.

When she got on the phone she began to wail about this AFRICAN AMERICAN MAN as if she were being attacked and even ended the call with a sense of urgency as if her life were in danger. This was unnecessary and racist.

White people are certainly able to experience conflict with black people and NOT be racist. She could have said "Mind your own business, jerk", "Don't give my dog treats, dork", or "F*ck off, birdman". She would have been rude, but not racist. If she truly felt threatened she could have just walked away, and certainly not aggressively approached him as shown at the start of the video.

I think she was approaching him to ask him to stop videoing her. Is this just a thing now, we can all video each other all the time?

If he didn't video the situation, he may be in jail right now. That's what happens when a white woman says that she is being threatened by a black man.

He did threaten to poison her dog (or implied as much), by his own admission. Probably shocked that a “Karen” would go nuclear on him, but it was just a little bit misogynist to provoke someone like that and not expect a response, in New York of all places. I strongly doubt Cooper would have challenged a fellow black man with a bully breed in the same way.

No, he didn't.

STOP BLAMING THE VICTIM.

So many nasty racists on this site. It's disgusting.

DP. I don't think that he did, if so I missed it. But he did threaten her. And he is hardly a victim. He hasn't lost his job, his dog, received death threats, and possibly charged with a hate crime or criminal charges.

He said, on his own social media, that he was going to “do something she wouldn’t like” and then brought out something he kept for such “intransigence”.
The implication being that he was going to poison her dog or otherwise lure it away (to do harm).

Then she should keep her dog on leash so nobody gives or threatens to give any treats, poisoned or not. She could have so easily avoided all this and we could be over in other threads talking about whether or not our children's sports careers are ruined forever by the shutdown. Amy is like the butterfly who flapped its wings. I bet she is wishing so hard that she had clipped poor Henry's leash on or that she stayed out of the Ramble altogether and nobody would have to wonder about whether birdwatchers carry poisoned dog treats.

Yes, she probably is. And Chris Cooper would kinda feel a bit better if maybe some people would tone down the death threats aimed at her.

All he wanted to do was scare her, not have other people scare her.

Chris Cooper did the right thing and has nothing to feel guilty about. No one needs to put up with some entitled pos white American (and these obnoxious dog owners are always white American) refusing to leash their potentially dangerous, filthy mongrel. She deserves all the threats.

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Anonymous wrote:As cra-cra as Amy is, because he was a Karen first, I'm able to offer her a little more grace than I did initially. She likely would have acted similarly had the guy been white, because...entitled people. But being black, his dog treat threat escalated racism she probably never even knew existed. Media has long portrayed the big, black man as bad - and she capitalized on white woman syndrome - and the fact that both of these played out from her subconscious is a reminder racism is rooted deeply. It's unfair of her employer to paint her as a racist.

So the fact that she taunted Mr Cooper -- telling him that she was going to call the police and tell them that she was being threatened by an African American man , instead of, say, backing away to a "safe" distance and just calling the police and actually waiting around for the police to show up doesn't shift your view point a tiny tiny bit? Her behavior was very calculated -- and this, likely, is why even her employer recognizes that she's not a good face or fit for their organization. Even on a holiday weekend.

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Anonymous wrote:Question - I'm assuming there would not be this amount of outrage (or any at all) if she had not called the police? Or if she hadn't referred to him as 'African American'? What if she had just said 'F U, I'll do what I want and won't leash my dog' (asshole move for sure, but things like this surely happen every day among people of all races). I'm just trying to differentiate between racist behavior and being a run of the mill asshole (I am white, but have both been the asshole and had others of all races be the asshole to me throughout my life).

This may sound ignorant but I'm trying to understand.

She knew exactly what she was doing by saying "I'm going to tell them that an AFRICAN AMERICAN MAN is threatening me". Then she said it again, before calling the police and claiming that he - excuse me, that an AFRICAN AMERICAN MAN, was threatening her and her dog. In normal circumstances where there is conflict and someone feels strongly that they need police intervention/help, they call and explain what is happening. The operator will then ask for a description of the other party/suspect/perpetrator. By premeditating her fake distress and preempting the description, she planned to turn a very busy police department into a weapon by falsely claiming to be threatened by a *gasp* BLACK man. She was hoping that she would be seen as an innocent white woman who was being attacked in Central Park by a black man who would cause her harm. What she didn't know that she was getting was a Harvard grad who is on the Board of Directors of the Audobon Society.

When she got on the phone she began to wail about this AFRICAN AMERICAN MAN as if she were being attacked and even ended the call with a sense of urgency as if her life were in danger. This was unnecessary and racist.

White people are certainly able to experience conflict with black people and NOT be racist. She could have said "Mind your own business, jerk", "Don't give my dog treats, dork", or "F*ck off, birdman". She would have been rude, but not racist. If she truly felt threatened she could have just walked away, and certainly not aggressively approached him as shown at the start of the video.

I think she was approaching him to ask him to stop videoing her. Is this just a thing now, we can all video each other all the time?

If he didn't video the situation, he may be in jail right now. That's what happens when a white woman says that she is being threatened by a black man.

He did threaten to poison her dog (or implied as much), by his own admission. Probably shocked that a “Karen” would go nuclear on him, but it was just a little bit misogynist to provoke someone like that and not expect a response, in New York of all places. I strongly doubt Cooper would have challenged a fellow black man with a bully breed in the same way.

No, he didn't.

STOP BLAMING THE VICTIM.

So many nasty racists on this site. It's disgusting.

DP. I don't think that he did, if so I missed it. But he did threaten her. And he is hardly a victim. He hasn't lost his job, his dog, received death threats, and possibly charged with a hate crime or criminal charges.

He said, on his own social media, that he was going to “do something she wouldn’t like” and then brought out something he kept for such “intransigence”.
The implication being that he was going to poison her dog or otherwise lure it away (to do harm).

Then she should keep her dog on leash so nobody gives or threatens to give any treats, poisoned or not. She could have so easily avoided all this and we could be over in other threads talking about whether or not our children's sports careers are ruined forever by the shutdown. Amy is like the butterfly who flapped its wings. I bet she is wishing so hard that she had clipped poor Henry's leash on or that she stayed out of the Ramble altogether and nobody would have to wonder about whether birdwatchers carry poisoned dog treats.

Yes, she probably is. And Chris Cooper would kinda feel a bit better if maybe some people would tone down the death threats aimed at her.

All he wanted to do was scare her, not have other people scare her.

Chris Cooper did the right thing and has nothing to feel guilty about. No one needs to put up with some entitled pos white American (and these obnoxious dog owners are always white American) refusing to leash their potentially dangerous, filthy mongrel. She deserves all the threats.

Threatening an irresponsible dog owner is the right thing to do.

If you are on the right side of the camera of a viral video.

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Anonymous wrote:Last post: the precious birds are up in the trees, far from that little dog. If they had the sense to fly thousands of miles I bet they had the sense to avoid a small dog.

Bye. Don't forget to follow leash laws.

Racist twots want to change the topic. THIS IS NOT ABOUT LEASH LAWS.

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Anonymous wrote:Question - I'm assuming there would not be this amount of outrage (or any at all) if she had not called the police? Or if she hadn't referred to him as 'African American'? What if she had just said 'F U, I'll do what I want and won't leash my dog' (asshole move for sure, but things like this surely happen every day among people of all races). I'm just trying to differentiate between racist behavior and being a run of the mill asshole (I am white, but have both been the asshole and had others of all races be the asshole to me throughout my life).

This may sound ignorant but I'm trying to understand.

She knew exactly what she was doing by saying "I'm going to tell them that an AFRICAN AMERICAN MAN is threatening me". Then she said it again, before calling the police and claiming that he - excuse me, that an AFRICAN AMERICAN MAN, was threatening her and her dog. In normal circumstances where there is conflict and someone feels strongly that they need police intervention/help, they call and explain what is happening. The operator will then ask for a description of the other party/suspect/perpetrator. By premeditating her fake distress and preempting the description, she planned to turn a very busy police department into a weapon by falsely claiming to be threatened by a *gasp* BLACK man. She was hoping that she would be seen as an innocent white woman who was being attacked in Central Park by a black man who would cause her harm. What she didn't know that she was getting was a Harvard grad who is on the Board of Directors of the Audobon Society.

When she got on the phone she began to wail about this AFRICAN AMERICAN MAN as if she were being attacked and even ended the call with a sense of urgency as if her life were in danger. This was unnecessary and racist.

White people are certainly able to experience conflict with black people and NOT be racist. She could have said "Mind your own business, jerk", "Don't give my dog treats, dork", or "F*ck off, birdman". She would have been rude, but not racist. If she truly felt threatened she could have just walked away, and certainly not aggressively approached him as shown at the start of the video.

I think she was approaching him to ask him to stop videoing her. Is this just a thing now, we can all video each other all the time?

If he didn't video the situation, he may be in jail right now. That's what happens when a white woman says that she is being threatened by a black man.

He did threaten to poison her dog (or implied as much), by his own admission. Probably shocked that a “Karen” would go nuclear on him, but it was just a little bit misogynist to provoke someone like that and not expect a response, in New York of all places. I strongly doubt Cooper would have challenged a fellow black man with a bully breed in the same way.

No, he didn't.

STOP BLAMING THE VICTIM.

So many nasty racists on this site. It's disgusting.

DP. I don't think that he did, if so I missed it. But he did threaten her. And he is hardly a victim. He hasn't lost his job, his dog, received death threats, and possibly charged with a hate crime or criminal charges.

Yes, the reason he wasn’t charged with a hate crime is because he was the victim of a hate crime. Making a false police report is a crime.

Amy Cooper was the perpetrator of a hate crime — facing consequences for her actions does not make her a victim. If that’s the case, then every convicted rapist and murderer in prison would be a victim.

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Anonymous wrote:Question - I'm assuming there would not be this amount of outrage (or any at all) if she had not called the police? Or if she hadn't referred to him as 'African American'? What if she had just said 'F U, I'll do what I want and won't leash my dog' (asshole move for sure, but things like this surely happen every day among people of all races). I'm just trying to differentiate between racist behavior and being a run of the mill asshole (I am white, but have both been the asshole and had others of all races be the asshole to me throughout my life).

This may sound ignorant but I'm trying to understand.

She knew exactly what she was doing by saying "I'm going to tell them that an AFRICAN AMERICAN MAN is threatening me". Then she said it again, before calling the police and claiming that he - excuse me, that an AFRICAN AMERICAN MAN, was threatening her and her dog. In normal circumstances where there is conflict and someone feels strongly that they need police intervention/help, they call and explain what is happening. The operator will then ask for a description of the other party/suspect/perpetrator. By premeditating her fake distress and preempting the description, she planned to turn a very busy police department into a weapon by falsely claiming to be threatened by a *gasp* BLACK man. She was hoping that she would be seen as an innocent white woman who was being attacked in Central Park by a black man who would cause her harm. What she didn't know that she was getting was a Harvard grad who is on the Board of Directors of the Audobon Society.

When she got on the phone she began to wail about this AFRICAN AMERICAN MAN as if she were being attacked and even ended the call with a sense of urgency as if her life were in danger. This was unnecessary and racist.

White people are certainly able to experience conflict with black people and NOT be racist. She could have said "Mind your own business, jerk", "Don't give my dog treats, dork", or "F*ck off, birdman". She would have been rude, but not racist. If she truly felt threatened she could have just walked away, and certainly not aggressively approached him as shown at the start of the video.

I think she was approaching him to ask him to stop videoing her. Is this just a thing now, we can all video each other all the time?

If he didn't video the situation, he may be in jail right now. That's what happens when a white woman says that she is being threatened by a black man.

He did threaten to poison her dog (or implied as much), by his own admission. Probably shocked that a “Karen” would go nuclear on him, but it was just a little bit misogynist to provoke someone like that and not expect a response, in New York of all places. I strongly doubt Cooper would have challenged a fellow black man with a bully breed in the same way.

No, he didn't.

STOP BLAMING THE VICTIM.

So many nasty racists on this site. It's disgusting.

DP. I don't think that he did, if so I missed it. But he did threaten her. And he is hardly a victim. He hasn't lost his job, his dog, received death threats, and possibly charged with a hate crime or criminal charges.

He said, on his own social media, that he was going to “do something she wouldn’t like” and then brought out something he kept for such “intransigence”.
The implication being that he was going to poison her dog or otherwise lure it away (to do harm).

Then she should keep her dog on leash so nobody gives or threatens to give any treats, poisoned or not. She could have so easily avoided all this and we could be over in other threads talking about whether or not our children's sports careers are ruined forever by the shutdown. Amy is like the butterfly who flapped its wings. I bet she is wishing so hard that she had clipped poor Henry's leash on or that she stayed out of the Ramble altogether and nobody would have to wonder about whether birdwatchers carry poisoned dog treats.

Yes, she probably is. And Chris Cooper would kinda feel a bit better if maybe some people would tone down the death threats aimed at her.

All he wanted to do was scare her, not have other people scare her.

Chris Cooper did the right thing and has nothing to feel guilty about. No one needs to put up with some entitled pos white American (and these obnoxious dog owners are always white American) refusing to leash their potentially dangerous, filthy mongrel. She deserves all the threats.

Threatening an irresponsible dog owner is the right thing to do.

If you are on the right side of the camera of a viral video.

Good for him that he was.

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Anonymous wrote:Question - I'm assuming there would not be this amount of outrage (or any at all) if she had not called the police? Or if she hadn't referred to him as 'African American'? What if she had just said 'F U, I'll do what I want and won't leash my dog' (asshole move for sure, but things like this surely happen every day among people of all races). I'm just trying to differentiate between racist behavior and being a run of the mill asshole (I am white, but have both been the asshole and had others of all races be the asshole to me throughout my life).

This may sound ignorant but I'm trying to understand.

She knew exactly what she was doing by saying "I'm going to tell them that an AFRICAN AMERICAN MAN is threatening me". Then she said it again, before calling the police and claiming that he - excuse me, that an AFRICAN AMERICAN MAN, was threatening her and her dog. In normal circumstances where there is conflict and someone feels strongly that they need police intervention/help, they call and explain what is happening. The operator will then ask for a description of the other party/suspect/perpetrator. By premeditating her fake distress and preempting the description, she planned to turn a very busy police department into a weapon by falsely claiming to be threatened by a *gasp* BLACK man. She was hoping that she would be seen as an innocent white woman who was being attacked in Central Park by a black man who would cause her harm. What she didn't know that she was getting was a Harvard grad who is on the Board of Directors of the Audobon Society.

When she got on the phone she began to wail about this AFRICAN AMERICAN MAN as if she were being attacked and even ended the call with a sense of urgency as if her life were in danger. This was unnecessary and racist.

White people are certainly able to experience conflict with black people and NOT be racist. She could have said "Mind your own business, jerk", "Don't give my dog treats, dork", or "F*ck off, birdman". She would have been rude, but not racist. If she truly felt threatened she could have just walked away, and certainly not aggressively approached him as shown at the start of the video.

I think she was approaching him to ask him to stop videoing her. Is this just a thing now, we can all video each other all the time?

If he didn't video the situation, he may be in jail right now. That's what happens when a white woman says that she is being threatened by a black man.

He did threaten to poison her dog (or implied as much), by his own admission. Probably shocked that a “Karen” would go nuclear on him, but it was just a little bit misogynist to provoke someone like that and not expect a response, in New York of all places. I strongly doubt Cooper would have challenged a fellow black man with a bully breed in the same way.

No, he didn't.

STOP BLAMING THE VICTIM.

So many nasty racists on this site. It's disgusting.

DP. I don't think that he did, if so I missed it. But he did threaten her. And he is hardly a victim. He hasn't lost his job, his dog, received death threats, and possibly charged with a hate crime or criminal charges.

He said, on his own social media, that he was going to “do something she wouldn’t like” and then brought out something he kept for such “intransigence”.
The implication being that he was going to poison her dog or otherwise lure it away (to do harm).

Then she should keep her dog on leash so nobody gives or threatens to give any treats, poisoned or not. She could have so easily avoided all this and we could be over in other threads talking about whether or not our children's sports careers are ruined forever by the shutdown. Amy is like the butterfly who flapped its wings. I bet she is wishing so hard that she had clipped poor Henry's leash on or that she stayed out of the Ramble altogether and nobody would have to wonder about whether birdwatchers carry poisoned dog treats.

Yes, she probably is. And Chris Cooper would kinda feel a bit better if maybe some people would tone down the death threats aimed at her.

All he wanted to do was scare her, not have other people scare her.

Chris Cooper did the right thing and has nothing to feel guilty about. No one needs to put up with some entitled pos white American (and these obnoxious dog owners are always white American) refusing to leash their potentially dangerous, filthy mongrel. She deserves all the threats.

Threatening an irresponsible dog owner is the right thing to do.

If you are on the right side of the camera of a viral video.

Good for him that he was.

This Karen is good but that Karen is bad.

Logical? No, just mob mentality/cancel culture.

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Anonymous wrote:Question - I'm assuming there would not be this amount of outrage (or any at all) if she had not called the police? Or if she hadn't referred to him as 'African American'? What if she had just said 'F U, I'll do what I want and won't leash my dog' (asshole move for sure, but things like this surely happen every day among people of all races). I'm just trying to differentiate between racist behavior and being a run of the mill asshole (I am white, but have both been the asshole and had others of all races be the asshole to me throughout my life).

This may sound ignorant but I'm trying to understand.

She knew exactly what she was doing by saying "I'm going to tell them that an AFRICAN AMERICAN MAN is threatening me". Then she said it again, before calling the police and claiming that he - excuse me, that an AFRICAN AMERICAN MAN, was threatening her and her dog. In normal circumstances where there is conflict and someone feels strongly that they need police intervention/help, they call and explain what is happening. The operator will then ask for a description of the other party/suspect/perpetrator. By premeditating her fake distress and preempting the description, she planned to turn a very busy police department into a weapon by falsely claiming to be threatened by a *gasp* BLACK man. She was hoping that she would be seen as an innocent white woman who was being attacked in Central Park by a black man who would cause her harm. What she didn't know that she was getting was a Harvard grad who is on the Board of Directors of the Audobon Society.

When she got on the phone she began to wail about this AFRICAN AMERICAN MAN as if she were being attacked and even ended the call with a sense of urgency as if her life were in danger. This was unnecessary and racist.

White people are certainly able to experience conflict with black people and NOT be racist. She could have said "Mind your own business, jerk", "Don't give my dog treats, dork", or "F*ck off, birdman". She would have been rude, but not racist. If she truly felt threatened she could have just walked away, and certainly not aggressively approached him as shown at the start of the video.

I think she was approaching him to ask him to stop videoing her. Is this just a thing now, we can all video each other all the time?

If he didn't video the situation, he may be in jail right now. That's what happens when a white woman says that she is being threatened by a black man.

He did threaten to poison her dog (or implied as much), by his own admission. Probably shocked that a “Karen” would go nuclear on him, but it was just a little bit misogynist to provoke someone like that and not expect a response, in New York of all places. I strongly doubt Cooper would have challenged a fellow black man with a bully breed in the same way.

No, he didn't.

STOP BLAMING THE VICTIM.

So many nasty racists on this site. It's disgusting.

DP. I don't think that he did, if so I missed it. But he did threaten her. And he is hardly a victim. He hasn't lost his job, his dog, received death threats, and possibly charged with a hate crime or criminal charges.

Yes, the reason he wasn’t charged with a hate crime is because he was the victim of a hate crime. Making a false police report is a crime.

Amy Cooper was the perpetrator of a hate crime — facing consequences for her actions does not make her a victim. If that’s the case, then every convicted rapist and murderer in prison would be a victim.

Calling the police because you feel threatened by a person who is not threatening you (much) isn't filing a false claim. Nowhere is that the case. Except in cancel culture.

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Anonymous wrote:Let's focus on Treatgate some more. I mean, yes, the woman was an entitled liar who tried to get an innocent man arrested by filing false police reports. I know she got fired for it, lost her dog for it, and Central Park is trying to ban her for life because of it.

But lets post hundreds and hundreds of times about how weird, absolutely weird and inexplicably weird that someone who spends time in public parks where there are uncontrolled dogs roaming around would have dog treats on them. It's weird! So weird! I mean, she maybe let her dog off the leash simply because the birdwatcher was carrying treats and she knew he would try to lure her dog over with his weird dog treats!

He's undoubtedly run into scofflaws like her before and knows this technique works. Your theory is childish but befitting you, I guess.

He's on the board of the NYC Audubon Society. Central Park is a key migratory stopover site. We're right in the middle of migration season. Tons of birds are stopping by after flying all the way from Central and South America. The birds spend a day or more in Central Park foraging like crazy to rebuild their fat stores so they can make the next leg of their trips, often 1,000 miles or more up to Canada.

Dogs rustling in the bushes interrupt birds like crazy, for hours if it goes unchecked. Unleashed dogs need to be stopped. If the birds take off without rebuilding their energy supplies, they can die en route or not have enough energy to withstand bad weather when they reach their nesting sites.

Everyone knows bird people are a bit crazy. And she had know way of knowing that he was a legit birder and not some creep pretending.

And, of course, if she had simply obeyed the law and made the decision NOT to walk her unleashed dog in the protected bird sanctuary where one might expect to find "legit birders", all of this could have been avoided. If she had simply done the right thing, no decisions or judgements -- however racist and entitled or not -- would have been necessary.

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Anonymous wrote:Last post: the precious birds are up in the trees, far from that little dog. If they had the sense to fly thousands of miles I bet they had the sense to avoid a small dog.

While the native birds are in the trees, there are many migratory birds that are not building nests but are resting/nesting on shrubs and lower folliage. This is the prime time for birds that have traveled south to return north and there are many non-native birds currently in spaces like the Ramble. Additionally many of the birds, both native and non-native are feeding off seeds and insects that are on the ground and low foliage When dogs roam through the underbrush and the plantings, as Henry was doing, it scares away the birds, and prevents them from finding much of the food that they need. When they are migrating like thousands of birds are doing now, they don't always have the time and strength to wait out dogs crawling through their feeding spaces to forage for food. And the dogs marking the territory also destroys the food supplies and habitat. There is a reason that that the law is that dogs have to be on leashes and everyone (people and pets) is asked to stay on the designated foot paths.

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Anonymous wrote:Last post: the precious birds are up in the trees, far from that little dog. If they had the sense to fly thousands of miles I bet they had the sense to avoid a small dog.

Wrong. A lot of migrating songbirds, warblers and thrushes forage close to the ground on low branches or in bushes, or even on the ground. Some forage in the treetops but a lot do not.

Don’t let the door hit you on the way out.

— a birder

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Anonymous wrote:Last post: the precious birds are up in the trees, far from that little dog. If they had the sense to fly thousands of miles I bet they had the sense to avoid a small dog.

Bye. Don't forget to follow leash laws.

Racist twots want to change the topic. THIS IS NOT ABOUT LEASH LAWS.

Well it’s sort of is. He was enforcing them reasonably and she flouting them with racism added.

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Anonymous wrote:Last post: the precious birds are up in the trees, far from that little dog. If they had the sense to fly thousands of miles I bet they had the sense to avoid a small dog.

Bye. Don't forget to follow leash laws.

Racist twots want to change the topic. THIS IS NOT ABOUT LEASH LAWS.

Well it’s sort of is. He was enforcing them reasonably and she flouting them with racism added.

That is not correct. He wasn't acting reasonably, and leash laws aren't his to enforce.

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Anonymous wrote:Question - I'm assuming there would not be this amount of outrage (or any at all) if she had not called the police? Or if she hadn't referred to him as 'African American'? What if she had just said 'F U, I'll do what I want and won't leash my dog' (asshole move for sure, but things like this surely happen every day among people of all races). I'm just trying to differentiate between racist behavior and being a run of the mill asshole (I am white, but have both been the asshole and had others of all races be the asshole to me throughout my life).

This may sound ignorant but I'm trying to understand.

If she hadn't taunted him by threatening to call the police saying that she was being threatened by an African American man, and if she hadn't dramatically raised her voice in a parody of a delicate flower of white womanhood terrified by an African American man -- I, for one, wouldn't be viewing this as racist. The walking the dog in a protected area was entitled. Had she just argued with Mr Cooper, I'd go with "run of the mill asshole". Had she backed away -- instead of moving threateningly toward HIM in the video --, found an apparently safer environment, and waited to talk with the police, I might speculate about the racism in society that supported her craziness, but my view of her as a racist would be more measured and contextual.

A big point that I haven't seen discussed, despite 70+ pages is: If Ms Cooper was genuinely distressed and certain that she was in the right, why didn't she wait around for the police or leave the park and contact the police about the incident? A frightened victim with right on her side would do that, right?