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| Charges dropped against Amy Cooper, aka 'Central Park Karen', after she was made to attend ‘racial equality psychoeducation’ | Charges dropped against Amy Cooper, aka 'Central Park Karen', after she was made to attend ‘racial equality psychoeducation’ |
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| Amy Cooper, the New Yorker branded ‘Central Park Karen’ by the media following a dispute with a black birdwatcher, has had misdemeanor charges against her dropped after being made to attend “psychoeducation” for “racial equality.” | Amy Cooper, the New Yorker branded ‘Central Park Karen’ by the media following a dispute with a black birdwatcher, has had misdemeanor charges against her dropped after being made to attend “psychoeducation” for “racial equality.” |
| Cooper had been charged with making a false police report after she dramatically called 911 on birdwatcher Christian Cooper and claimed he was “threatening” her “life” during a heated dispute, after he had told her to leash her dog in Central Park's Ramble area – where dogs are required to be leashed – on May 25 last year. | Cooper had been charged with making a false police report after she dramatically called 911 on birdwatcher Christian Cooper and claimed he was “threatening” her “life” during a heated dispute, after he had told her to leash her dog in Central Park's Ramble area – where dogs are required to be leashed – on May 25 last year. |
| A judge on Tuesday “granted Manhattan prosecutors' request to toss Cooper's case after she completed five therapy sessions” that focused on racial equality, the New York Post reported. | A judge on Tuesday “granted Manhattan prosecutors' request to toss Cooper's case after she completed five therapy sessions” that focused on racial equality, the New York Post reported. |
| Cooper was sent to a “Critical Therapy Center,” where she received “psychoeducation and therapy services” focusing on how she “could appreciate that racial identities shape our lives but [that] we cannot use them to harm ourselves or others,” Assistant District Attorney Joan Illuzzi-Orbon said during the hearing. | Cooper was sent to a “Critical Therapy Center,” where she received “psychoeducation and therapy services” focusing on how she “could appreciate that racial identities shape our lives but [that] we cannot use them to harm ourselves or others,” Assistant District Attorney Joan Illuzzi-Orbon said during the hearing. |
| The sessions, “designed for introspection and progress,” were a “moving” experience for Cooper, prosecutors said. | The sessions, “designed for introspection and progress,” were a “moving” experience for Cooper, prosecutors said. |
| Some social media users likened the “psychoeducation” that Cooper was made to attend to a “reeducation camp,” and referenced the dystopian books ‘1984’ and ‘A Clockwork Orange’. | Some social media users likened the “psychoeducation” that Cooper was made to attend to a “reeducation camp,” and referenced the dystopian books ‘1984’ and ‘A Clockwork Orange’. |
| “Just an American being sentenced to a re-education camp. No biggie,” one person commented, while another tweeted, “Sounds an awful lot like reeducation dressed up as psychoeducation and therapy to me. This is evil.” | “Just an American being sentenced to a re-education camp. No biggie,” one person commented, while another tweeted, “Sounds an awful lot like reeducation dressed up as psychoeducation and therapy to me. This is evil.” |
| Others questioned why the charges were dropped at all and called for Cooper's punishment to be more severe. | Others questioned why the charges were dropped at all and called for Cooper's punishment to be more severe. |
| On top of the charges, the Central Park controversy led to Cooper losing her job at the Franklin Templeton holding company last year, and her dog was temporarily returned to a shelter after some critics accused her of animal abuse, though it was later returned. | On top of the charges, the Central Park controversy led to Cooper losing her job at the Franklin Templeton holding company last year, and her dog was temporarily returned to a shelter after some critics accused her of animal abuse, though it was later returned. |
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