Oh, when Karens take a walk with their dogs off leash in the famous Br🔜amble in NY’s Central Park, where it is clearly posted on signs that dogs MUST be♏ leashed at all times, and someone like my brother (an avid birder) politely asks her to put her dog on the leash.
— Melody Cooper (@melodyMcooper)
Video of white woman calling cops on black man in Central Park draws outrage
Aꦐ video of a white woman calling the cops on a black man because he asked her to leash her dog in Ce💟ntral Park Monday is drawing outrage on social media.
The footage, by the man’s sister, begins with the masked dog walker marching toward the man and demanding that he stop filming.
“Please don’t come close to me,” the man, who doesn’t appear on camera, is heard responding several times.
She continues to ask him to stop filming — and then threatens to call 911.
When the man invites her to “please call the cops,” she says: “I’m going to tell them there’s an African American man threatening my life.”
“Please tell them whatever you like,” he responds.
The dog walker then pulls down her mask as she gets on the phone and says: “I’m in the Ramble and an African American man with a bicycle helmet, he is recording me and threatening my dog.”
She pauses before repeating: “There is an African American man. I am in Central Park. He is recording me and threatening myself and my dog.”
After another pause, the woman appears suddenly shaken up as she cries: “I’m sorry, I can’t hear!”
“I’m being threatened by a man in the Ramble, please send the cops immediately.”
Throughout the clip, the woman is seen grabbing her struggl��ing dog by a neck harness and holding a leash, which she eventually attaches to th🎃e harness.
At that point, the man says “thank you” and stops filming.
A🐽n NYPD spokeswoman said cops were called to the Ramble, a 36-acre woodland༒ retreat between 73rd and 78th Streets, around 8:10 a.m. for a report of an assault.
“Upon arrival, police determined two individuals had engaged in a verbal dispute,” Sgt. Mary Frances O’Donnell said, adding that no arrests or summonses were issued and that “both parties went on their way.”
Central Park that dogs must be leashed 𝓡at all times in the Ramble.
Melody Cooper, the woman who posted the video, said 🌸her brother, an avid birdwatcher, had noticed the dog roaming free and asked the woman to put the pup on a leash.
He began filming “because she refused to put her dog on a leash and he sensed she was going to go full on Karen. And she did,” Cooper tweeted, referring to the social media shorthand for wܫhite women who call the cops on black neighbors over harmless incidents.
“As soon as she leashed the dog, he said thank you stopped filming and went about his business. This kind of entitlement dog walking happens weekly in the Ramble,” Cooper added.
Her post had been shared more than 37,🌱000 times by Monday evening, with several commentators slamming the woman in the ඣvideo.
“She tried to get him murdered. She need to go straight to prison,” .
The woman was identified by name in the comm🧸ents, and an Instagram account linked to that person was flooded with messages about the incident. The account later appeared꧟ to have been deleted.
Additional reporting by Joe Marino