"Better Living Through Birding": Christian Cooper on Birding While Black & the Central Park Incident 

Yes BUT HE MADE A BIG MISTAKE, NOT FIGHTING WHITE ENTITLEMENT RACISM

No, he is a coward! That incident he was a victim of years back was bigger than him and he could have set a precedent to stop racial harassment against Black Americans in NYC and possibly America. He chose to be a coward and was obviously rewarded for his cowardice. I am glad his sister has enough sense to denounce his cowardice.

@@deejay5102 I feel you! Can't say I would have made the same decision, but I do feel like understand him better after watching this. As far as I'm concerned, this woman can rot in hell.

That should have been an arrest😢

It was reported at the time that she lost custody of the dog, briefly.

@@victoriabaker4400 yeah, I just saw that in another report. So they gave the dog back to her?? Mistake.

What a horrible woman and these people are allowed to have animals. Disgusting!

​@@ldavanzo44Exactly.

Some might say she was scared, but I think she was just a woman who thought that the rules shouldn't apply to her and who was this guy telling her to put her dog on a leash anyway? On the other hand, the whole incident was blown out of proportion.

@@dinkster1729not out of proportion!😢😮 Smart people used harness, so choking did not a cure ❤ ! 🧐🥹🥰👍🤔😇👩

If she put the dog on the leash to stop it from being choked, that'd be doing what Miller had asked, so out of pure spite she'd rather strangle her own dog. Says something about her mentality, for sure.

@@Rietto Hello Rietto : I hope our interaction, helps educate new pet owners 💕🙏👍😇🥸

@@dinkster1729 She lied and filed a false report. The reaction to that crime was not blown out of proportion, considering the danger, as historically documented, that she could have put him in by LYING to the cops that a black man was threatening her life. He was nice enough to not take it as far as he legally and justifiably could have.

I can almost here people saying, "What's the Audobon Society being called these days? I can't remember. " LOLOL!

That's what I thought. Good things happened for Christian Cooper after this bizarre incident in NYC. What happened to Amy Cooper's life after this incident? She was fired from one job. Did she get another job? The whole incident shows you just how crazy New Yorkers can get. Big egos clashing. I guess the police didn't take it seriously since they didn't show up very quickly.

Not in this particular case. Racism won

Sha got away...no punishment for her. This dude let her go

Wikipedia: The charges against her were dropped in February 2021 after she completed an educational course on racial identity. Death threats and doxxing left her suicidal and drove her to leave the United States.

@@Zxx459 She lost her job as an executive at a NYC firm. Maybe, being from Canada, she was a bit intimidated by a mouthy Black man in the park. People in Canada, including Blacks, are a little more soft spoken. But, maybe, she doesn't really realize why that "no unleashed dogs" sign is posted? How many people don't realize why it's there? Maybe, education rather than intimidation would be a better approach, Christian? I tend to be a truth teller. I recall there was a skunk in broad daylight running down our semi-rural street. I phoned the police about it. That skunk was exhibiting odd behavior. I got nowhere with the dispatcher. She was on the skunk's side!!! Then, my husband sprang into action. He phoned the police and told the dispatcher the skunk was chasing kids up and down the street. The police arrived instantly. In the mean time, a neighbour had already shot it so the police officer and the neighbour buried him. My husband's comment, "You have to know how to talk to the police." I think this Amy was trying to intimidate the Black man scolding her by making him the target of a police investigation. I think Christian could have been a little more civil and explained why that sign was there. Both people should be ashamed of themselves. Much ado about nothing. Maybe, Christian should have phoned by-law enforcement instead of filming Amy. All kinds of crazy thoughts might be going through my head, too, if a Black masked man started filming me and my dog in an isolated area of the park early in the morning. I'm not saying I'd jump to phoning the police and making a false report though.

@@dinkster1729 Calling the police over an unleashed dog?

@@dinkster1729 You've got to be kidding me. He did absolutely nothing to be ashamed of. You should be ashamed of what you just posted, yet I bet you feel not one iota. You are clearly on the side of the woman who broke at least two laws, because OMG a black man called her out about a law she was breaking. Yet somehow you seem to feel he's more to blame. So typical.

And the bird watching coward didn't want to hold the racist accountable.

@@deejay5102 Maybe, he figured a clever lawyer would cause trouble for him anyway. Besides, he had a book to write and a National Geographic show to star in. Maybe, the 2 Coopers could reconcile. She could apologize; he could apologize. They could go on a birding expedition together. Yeah, I know. "Only in your dreams, sister."

@@deejay5102. You are out of line.

@@deejay5102 The woman showed the world her true character and, if I recall correctly, lost her job. True, it's not courtroom justice, but if she had been a decent human being, she would not have gone viral for the reason she did. And we wouldn't be talking about Christian Cooper right now.

​@@dinkster1729if he apologizes, he is the biggest fool in the world.

Audobon shot his birds as well before he painted them. That's why there's a rifle in his portrait, not a pair of binoculars. I don't know that changing the name is going to do much except its kind of a generic name so how recognizable will it be? Most people know that Audobon is about birds, right? What was the new name of the NYC chapter? Would most people know that Audobon was a slave owner and a racist? I also wonder about Christian Cooper saying his family has been in the North for generations. They came north in the 1930s. A couple of generatons maximum that they have been in the North. Also, it's not just a change of location that makes you successful in life. Good public education probably helped the Black Cooper family be successful as well.

Typical New Yorker.

He get distracted by the birds!

Why do you think he's being used by the media? He's perfect for their optics and THEY cannot care less about birds. Almost no mention of what's devastating these birds. Pesticides, g m o bio engineering, land speculation, mining... You know people just like Bill Gates... This channel never misses the money to push the W eeee f Sorotic agenda Open Soc. Anyone that thinks that this show counts on support from viewers money is ridiculous. They get plenty of money by coercing other public stations and buy extremely generous "elite " foundation vehicles laundering influence. And thus this channel can never be an honest program anymore . IMHO et al

Do you remember the Bernie and Bird scene? Probably a sign for good politicians!

@@macareuxmoine Yes! That's right.

He ignored justice He ignored racism.. He let her go unpunished. He did wrong...but he likes BIRDS

@@Zxx459 He is not in fault on those areas. The whole country system is responsible for those areas. I do not support the US legal system as a just one. How do you know if they did not force him to let her go. Do not be too naive.

Maybe, at 5:30 in the morning, he was dressed less "middle class". I saw a photo of him once while out birding. His appearance would have intimidated me if I saw him at dawn in an isolated region of Central Park.

You are welcome anytime😊

Her life is ruined either way

She paid a big price of national humiliation, and she lost her job and her dog too.

@@user-ti3vp9mt3z she almost cost that man his life by lying to the police …..humiliation really … if that was you she did that to would you be so humble

@@macareuxmoine no it’s not with privilege in your pocket

Scientific name Karenista Racists....

He dropped the ball. He is a coward. Period.

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How was there no consequence for her? She’s a national pariah.

What? How is he not making a difference???

Big mistake.. White supremacy CAN NOT BE LET GO UNPUNISHED

For the closeted racist it’s crucial to mention the color of ANY person’s skin.

@@raristy1 Amy didn't mention the colour of Christian's skin. She said he was"an African-American". It's a way of identifying him to police, if they came looking for him to ask him about his remarks. The police didn't arrive till both parties were gone from the park! Obviously, they are either very overworked or they figured it wasn't that serious a call. Maybe, the 2nd call where Amy alleges she was assaulted made them realize that the call wasn't that serious. She's walked back her first 2 calls obviously.

@@dinkster1729 We have LEO’s (Law Enforcement Officers) in the family and given this short video, you’d be correct. In this short video, you did not get her full conversation. The full video goes on for nearly 15 minutes. It is so sad to see what racist nonsense is in this woman head. NYPD arrested her BECAUSE of her statements on the full video. So, not only did she have a human rights violation, she also got nailed for filing a false report. Add to that, her employer reviewed the company’s policies and terminated her over this incident.

@@raristy1 Where's the full video? Or are you just making this stuff up?

@@raristy1Post the full video.

You clearly didn’t watch the video

@@TheProf226agree with you. Being a bright and bold individual is the best revenge.

Amy Cooper probably learned a lesson, too. I hope. She was seeking revenge for a Black man who had the nerve to ask her leash her dog. She lost her job. She lost her job for a while. If she sees this video, she will know that Christian Cooper is doing well. Thank you very much.

Yup. But HE IGNORED RACISM CIVIL JUSTICE...HE FAILED AT DOING THE RIGHT THING

He is a super 🦝

What? He took the chance to show his beautiful individuality. How is that not resistance?

She doesn't sound that scared at all. It was an act at the end when she was talking to the police dispatcher to get some action. However, she didn't like being told by the birder not well dressed, not preppy, to obey the rules. That's how I read that scene. He was infuriated at her for ending his chances of seeing that bird by screaming for her dog. She was infuriated by him telling her to leash her beast and filming her. Two big egos attacking each other. They both could be less threatening and more accommodating IMHO. Hey, But I'm not a New Yorker, although I had a relationship with one for 6 years 44 years ago so I know the Big City mentality.

@@dinkster1729 i am obvously triggered by this story. I am a woman in pain and once upon a time about the same time as george flyd, I was being videotaped by my neighbor fir demanding he romove cement he poured on my propety. He pointed his camera at me and called the police. Etc etc etc. The poluce made him remove it, but.... I SOLD MY HOUSE. He believe he enjoyed making me crazy. Where has all the kindness gone? She looked like she was in pain to me. It takes one to know one. And her life was distroyed. I can not see how she was anything but scared and he esculated her fear.

This was addressed in detail in the video.

Oh ya. Whitewashing us all will surely solve our problems.

That'd be nice, but one big problem is, police have a bit of a habit of using excessive force against certain 'identities'.

@@CSGraves That's not Amy Cooper's fault, though. What was she supposed to do? Not call police when she was threatened because the police might use excessive force on Christian. That's ridiculous. The police should be trained not to use excessive force on Black men. Besides, he was 57 so he wasn't that young and with his polished way of speaking, I would think the "cops" would just listen to both sides of the story, shake their heads and got about their business. They might tell Christian to be more polite next time whether the law says you can film someone in a park or not.

@@dinkster1729 If filming Amy Cooper constitutes threatening behaviour, we'd need to totally re-evaluate security cameras, body cams, dash cams, et cetera... Christian asked her to leash her dog - per the rules of that very section of the park they were in. I agree that police _should_ be trained not to use excessive force, but there's ample precedent, in the United States especially, for that not to be the case (e.g. 'Killology' as a widespread police training method). An innocent man potentially could have ended up a statistic just because one woman didn't want to play by the rules of the park and keep her dog on a leash in an area intended for birdwatching. When you weigh the possible consequences of each individual's use of their phones, a fortiori, a potentially lethal call to the police is _far_ more threatening than a video of someone letting their dog run loose.

@@CSGraves As a woman who was in a shelter for abused women once said to me when someone else in a activist group denounced the police said, "The police are useful sometimes." Sorry! A petite woman is going to call the police if she is threatened by a man threatening her.

Can you use correct English? Your sentence does not make sense!