Woman charged over racism in NYC park

Updated April 15 2021 - 12:31am, first published July 7 2020 - 9:51am
A video showing Amy Cooper in a dispute with bird-watcher Christian Cooper in New York went viral.
A video showing Amy Cooper in a dispute with bird-watcher Christian Cooper in New York went viral.

New York prosecutors have charged a white woman who in May accused an African American man of threatening her life in New York's Central Park with filing a false police report, Manhattan's district attorney says.

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