Christian Cooper says he had his phone out to record a white woman breaking the rules in a leashed area in New York City’s Central Park.
After a brief argument about being recorded, the woman pulled out her own phone and called the police on Cooper, who is Black. “I’m gonna tell them there’s an African American man threatening my life,” she tells him in the now-viral video, which was posted online by Cooper’s sister on Monday.
The woman can then be seen making the call and repeatedly claiming that she is being “threatened by a man in the Ramble!” She yanks her dog around by its collar throughout the 66-second video.
And it’s RAMBLE (not bramble) — Melody Cooper (@melodyMcooper) May 25, 2020 Christian Cooper makes no comments or moves toward