Charge against Amy Cooper dropped after she completes therapy sessions on racial bias Print this article
The case against the white woman who called the police on a black birdwatcher who approached her in Central Park has been dropped.
A Manhattan Criminal Court judge agreed on Tuesday to dismiss one count of filing a false report at the request of Assistant District Attorney Joan Illuzzi after the defendant, Amy Cooper, completed therapy sessions that focused on racial biases.
Illuzzi said Cooper’s therapist reported that their five sessions were “a moving experience,”
adding that Cooper had “learned a lot in the comprehensive, respectful program designed towards introspection and progress. This type of sentence is an alternative offered under the rubric of restorative justice, in part because Cooper has no previous criminal history.
The charge against a white woman accused of falsely reporting that a Black man had threatened her during a wild caught-on-camera confrontation in Central Park.
Amy Cooper had been facing a charge of falsely reporting an incident to police, after she told them Christian Cooper, who is not related to her, threatened her in a New York City park. He did not.
Given the issues at hand and Ms. Cooper s lack of criminal background, we offered her, consistent with our position on many misdemeanor cases involving a first arrest, an alternative, restorative justice resolution; designed not just to punish but to educate.
Charges have been dropped against a woman who gained notoriety after she was filmed calling the police on a Black birdwatcher in a viral video last year.