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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]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.[/quote]
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. [/quote]

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? [/quote]

You think wrong. This woman was not even one bit scared. She aggressively gets into his space,  she taunts him that she will file a false report, she actually does that with all the acting.  A scared woman would have left. The kinds of things she did as a woman to this man, you do only if you are supremely confident that he cannot harm you, Try doing this to any random man and you would have been smacked around at the very least.

You can videotape in a public place anyone without permission. This means that you have to behave yourself in a public place. This is not hard because most of us do that every day and minute when we are outside.

Thanks to all the videotaping the world is seeing what the Black community knew. I have been in this country for 30 years and I did not really believe that this kind of overt racism was rampant.

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