Central Park Karen's target gets his own bird-watching show

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Nick Knudsen 🇺🇸🇺🇦 @NickKnudsenUS
Remember Christian Cooper? The avid bird-watcher and unfortunate victim of Central Park Karen a couple years ago?

He’s getting his own @NatGeo bird watching show.

I couldn’t possibly love this more.




Christian Cooper watches distant shorebirds at the Sonny Bono Salton Sea National Wildlife Refuge in California. The National Geographic channel has announced that Cooper will host a series called Extraordinary Birder. Cooper was in the spotlight after a woman in New York City's Central Park called the police and falsely accused him of threatening her in May 2020.
Jon Kroll/National Geographic
https://www.npr.org/2022/05/19/1100203220/christian-cooper-bird-watcher-national-geographic-tv-show

[Baitball Blogger]

1. Happy kick.

[Celerity]

2. Amy Cooper, That POS Karen, had her case dismissed last year

Link to tweet

[Silent3]

5. On what basis was the case dismissed?

I didn't see any follow-up from the tweet to explain that.

[Celerity]

6. Amy Cooper, Who Falsely Accused Black Bird-Watcher, Has Charge Dismissed

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/02/16/nyregion/amy-cooper-charges-dismissed.html

The criminal case against Amy Cooper, a white woman who called the police on a Black bird-watcher in Central Park and falsely reported that he had threatened her, was dismissed on Tuesday after Ms. Cooper completed a therapeutic program that included instruction about racial biases.

At a hearing in Manhattan Criminal Court, a senior prosecutor asked a judge to dismiss the single misdemeanor charge against Ms. Cooper — falsely reporting an incident — and the judge agreed. Ms. Cooper had faced up to a year in jail if convicted.

The resolution of the case without a trial or a guilty plea was for some an anticlimactic ending to an incident that had provoked intense discussions across the country about how Black people are harmed by false reports to the police.

The prosecutor, Joan Illuzzi-Orbon, said Ms. Cooper had participated in five therapy sessions that focused in part on how racial identities shape people’s lives. Her therapist had reported that the sessions were “a moving experience” and that Ms. Cooper “learned a lot,” Ms. Illuzzi-Orbon said.

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[groundloop]

8. Mixed feelings .... I hope she truly did learn from those sessions.

I know from personal experience that it's possible to change your world view over time, forty some years ago I had very racist and homophobic friends and totally bought into their bullshit. Thank goodness that over the course of time I've evolved to realize how wrong that was.

Hopefully Ms. Cooper had an awakening.

[IronLionZion]

9. She lost her dog and job pretty quick

I hope she's reformed. People were worried she'd harm herself.

[llashram]

18. bullshit

on the therapy success of ms Cooper. If she was a racist then, she is a racist now and chomping at the bit to vote for her fuhrer d. trump again.

[Hortensis]

14. In fact, she was charged, prosecuted, found guilty, and

before final disposition served a court-ordered counseling program, which she likely also had to pay for.

Let's hope her punishment was as hurtful and awakening as it sounds, or at least dissuading. If she despicably tries to frame another innocent victim in future the DA's office will have her previous record to consider.

[Celerity]

19. No she was not

In fact, she was charged, prosecuted, found guilty

not true


Amy Cooper, Who Falsely Accused Black Bird-Watcher, Has Charge Dismissed

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/02/16/nyregion/amy-cooper-charges-dismissed.html

The criminal case against Amy Cooper, a white woman who called the police on a Black bird-watcher in Central Park and falsely reported that he had threatened her, was dismissed on Tuesday after Ms. Cooper completed a therapeutic program that included instruction about racial biases.

At a hearing in Manhattan Criminal Court, a senior prosecutor asked a judge to dismiss the single misdemeanor charge against Ms. Cooper — falsely reporting an incident — and the judge agreed. Ms. Cooper had faced up to a year in jail if convicted.

The resolution of the case without a trial or a guilty plea was for some an anticlimactic ending to an incident that had provoked intense discussions across the country about how Black people are harmed by false reports to the police.

The prosecutor, Joan Illuzzi-Orbon, said Ms. Cooper had participated in five therapy sessions that focused in part on how racial identities shape people’s lives. Her therapist had reported that the sessions were “a moving experience” and that Ms. Cooper “learned a lot,” Ms. Illuzzi-Orbon said.

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[Hortensis]

21. Okay, right, they set aside what would have been a guaranteed conviction

in favor of the typical equal and proportional justice meted out for those who are charged out of thousands of attempted framings each year in NYC alone.

It wasn't a "dismissal" as in deciding charges weren't warranted.

[MissMillie]

3. She got fired, he got a great job.

That's what I call justice.

[KS Toronado]

10. Spot on !

[Hortensis]

13. +1. I'm very happy for him.

[Nay]

4. Excellent!! I'm gonna make sure to watch this. I'm a big birder. nt

[Talitha]

7. This is wonderful news!

[NNadir]

11. Now that's some upbeat news!! Thank you for sharing it! N/t

[AllaN01Bear]

12. eggscllent however i wish that the salten sea had not have the sonny bono extention on it.

[hamsterjill]

15. Sometimes it's nice to see karma in action.

Best of luck to him! May he do well and enjoy himself.

[crickets]

16. Same here. It's wonderful. nt

[calimary]

17. NICE!

Sounds like a happy ending to me.

[Emile]

20. Great ending!

[MontanaMama]

22. Bookmarked so that I can find his show.

May this heinous woman get acquainted with more karmic justice in her life.

[bigtree]

23. it's one of National Geographic's new offerings

https://www.nationalgeographic.com/tv/

(no release date yet)

[Skittles]

24. I remember being intrigued by him when I first read the Karen article

[Icanthinkformyself]

25. Ignorance or stupidity

It makes a difference. Ignorance can be 'cured' with education/information. Stupidity is forever. She will be back in the news for not a good reason at some point in her life, 'cause learning is for other people, not her.
But, good things do, sometimes happen to and for good people. I wish Mr. Cooper well.