Amy Cooper is having the worst week of her protected, privileged life. After threatening a black man with the cops she lost her job and her dog. She's just the latest example of a privileged white person using the police to bully black Americans.
The excuse used by people like her is always, "I'm afraid." She was "afraid" of a "threatening" black man whose only threat was calling her on violating the park's leash law.
"I'm afraid" is always the excuse gun nuts use when they shoot black people. Or when dirty cops kneel on black men's neck and kill them, as they did recently in Minneapolis.
But clearly Cooper wasn't afraid of the birder in the park. She was totally in the wrong, and was belligerent, threatening and intimidating.
If she had really been afraid, she would have simply left. But instead she approached the man and was the aggressor.
It's the same with George Zimmerman, who murdered Trayvon Martin in Florida and was acquitted because Zimmerman said he "was afraid." The guy with the gun was afraid? People who are actually afraid run away, they don't rush up the supposed subject of their fear.
Being afraid should never be an excuse for making malicious police reports or murdering black teenagers, any more than "I was drunk" is an excuse for crashing your car, or "I was horny" is for committing rape, or "I am penniless" is for robbing a bank.
But racism wasn't Cooper's only sin. She is a horrible dog owner: watch how she drags the dog around by the throat.
And more: Cooper is one of those obnoxious twits who think that parks are dog toilets. These people don't let their dogs run amok in parks because they have some romantic notion that her dog's inner wolf should be free and wild.
No, they want their pets to do their business in the bushes so they don't have to pick up after them.
People who actually care about their pets keep them leashed or indoors, not just because Kitty or Fido will leave their shit where other people will walk in it, but because they could be attacked by bigger dog, or get rabies from a skunk, or kill or chase away the wildlife (like the birds the birder was there to see), or be killed by deer, or get hit by a car.
Cooper is one of those thoughtless, selfish people who think the rules don't apply to them, and lash out at anyone who tries to hold them to account.
Geeze. People like this shouldn't have pets if they can't take care of them properly.
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