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So we have a couple of disparate phenomena that I think dovetail together we can maybe consider to try to take a 30,000 foot look at

We have this incident on camera on an iPhone of the police in Minneapolis

One of them putting his knee on a subdued suspect on his throat and basically killing him

Four cops having almost immediately fired once the video was released

The mayor of Minneapolis essentially calling this a murder

We're gonna see you know where all that goes that happened of course the same day or just right after the viral video of Amy Cooper in the ramble in Central Park with her dog off her leash being confronted by Christian Cooper

An unrelated African-American male asking her to put her dog on the leash and she in turn calling the cops on him while he videotaped her

The videotaping of her being I think the inciting incident that got her so rattled she claimed that she was threatened and frightened

Because this man had approached her in this relatively remote area of Central Park

But her main concern seemed to be that she was on a camera and that he wasn't putting the camera down

She calls the cops as an African-American man is threatening me and now her life is basically over as far as we can tell she's been fired from Franklin Teppleton where she worked

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