‘Considering that Amy Cooper has already lost her job and her reputation, it’s hard to see what is to be gained by a criminal charge,’ Cooper said in a Washington Post op-ed.
Christian Cooper, the Black bird watcher whose cell phone video of Amy Cooper calling the police on him in Central Park unleashed the wrath of the Internet on her, explained in aTuesday why he isn’t cooperating with prosecutors in the criminal case against her, saying that he doesn’t want to see Amy Cooper in jail for an offense where he “suffered no harm.”... [+]KEY FACTS
Christian Cooper said he believes Amy Cooper’s actions reveal “ long-standing, deep-seated racial bias” in the U.S., but added she should not be charged with a crime because she has already lost her job and reputation, and “it’s hard to see what is to be gained by a criminal charge, aside from the upholding of principle,” he said.
“If her current setbacks aren’t deterrent enough to others seeking to weaponize race, it’s unlikely the threat of legal action would change that,” he wrote.her last week with falsely reporting an incident in the third degree, which is punishable with up to a year in jail. Christian Cooper emphasized that he didn’t suffer any mental or physical harm from the incident, adding that “if the fear is that the police would have done me harm as a result of Cooper’s call, then the solution is to fix policing.”
Cooper’s argument is also shared by a subset of criminal justice reform advocates, including Josie Duffy Rice, the president of nonprofit website The Appeal, who tweeted that charging Amy Cooper “reinforces the idea that justice can only be found in the disastrous carceral system we’ve created.”So while acknowledging the principle at stake, I must err on the side of compassion and choose not to be involved in this prosecution. Let the DA do his job.
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