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Honestly with Bari Weiss

The Real Story of “The Central Park Karen”

Honestly with Bari Weiss

The Free Press

Society & Culture, News

4.67.8K Ratings

🗓️ 3 August 2021

⏱️ 82 minutes

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Summary

Amy Cooper was not the internet’s first “Karen” — the pejorative used for a demanding, entitled white woman. But as the Central Park dog walker who went viral for calling the police on a black birdwatcher last year, she quickly became the paragon of the archetype. Within 24 hours, Amy Cooper had been doxxed, fired from her job, and surrendered her dog. She wound up fleeing the country. She hasn’t spoken publicly since last summer. Until now.  In a wide-ranging interview with Kmele Foster, friend of Honestly and co-host of The Fifth Column, we revisit the story of what happened in the park that day. We show what the media intentionally left out of the story. And we examine the cost of mob justice. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Last year, on May 25thth a cell phone video was shot in New York City Central Park.

0:47.0

In the video you see a woman with a dog, she's wearing a COVID mask, and she's in a wooded area of the park called

0:54.8

the Ramble. Would you please stop? Sorry I'm asking you to stop. You see her

0:59.2

notice that she's being filmed. Sorry I'm asking you to stop. Please don't come close to me.

1:04.1

And she walks toward the person with the camera and repeatedly tells him to stop filming her.

1:08.7

Sir, I'm asking to stop recording you.

1:10.5

Please don't come close to me.

1:12.4

Please take your phone off. Please don't come close to me. Please don't come close to me.

1:14.0

Then I'm taking a picture and calling the cops.

1:16.0

When he refuses, she says she's going to call the cops.

1:20.0

And the guy who's holding the camera actually encourages her to do so.

1:23.2

Please call the cops.

1:24.8

Then the woman says, quote,

1:26.8

I'm going to tell them there's an African American man threatening my life.

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