> Christian asked Amy to leash her dog, and she allegedly refused. By his own account, Christian then said, "Look, if you're going to do what you want, I'm going to do what I want, but you're not going to like it," and beckoned the dog toward him with a dog treat.[3] Amy then yelled, "Don't you touch my dog!"[3] Christian then began recording on his cellphone.[1][3]
> “ME: All you have to do is take him to the other side of the drive, outside the Ramble, and you can let him run off leash all you want.
> “HER: It’s too dangerous.
> “ME: Look, if you’re going to do what you want, I’m going to do what I want, but you’re not going to like it.
> “HER: What’s that?
> “ME (to the dog): Come here, puppy!
> “HER: He won’t come to you.
> “ME: We’ll see about that…” before adding, “I pull out the dog treats I carry for just for such intransigence. I didn’t even get a chance to toss any treats to the pooch before Karen scrambled to grab the dog.
> “HER: DON’T YOU TOUCH MY DOG!!!!!
> “That’s when I started video recording with my iPhone, and when her inner Karen fully emerged and took a dark turn..
I have no interest in defending or accusing anyone nor in discussing whether her action in the video where motivated and/or reasonable. But to say that she had no basis to perceive this as threathing behaviour (`filing a false police report`) feels a bit of a stretch.
PS: Obviously this topic can be seen from many angles, my response to you comment is almost entirely due to the "false" in "filing a false police report", had you substituted "racially motivated" this comment would be moot.
> Christian asked Amy to leash her dog, and she allegedly refused. By his own account, Christian then said, "Look, if you're going to do what you want, I'm going to do what I want, but you're not going to like it," and beckoned the dog toward him with a dog treat.[3] Amy then yelled, "Don't you touch my dog!"[3] Christian then began recording on his cellphone.[1][3]
And the man post where he tells his own side of the story (the [3] in the wikipedia article): https://nypost.com/2020/05/26/christian-cooper-recounts-amy-...
> “ME: All you have to do is take him to the other side of the drive, outside the Ramble, and you can let him run off leash all you want.
> “HER: It’s too dangerous.
> “ME: Look, if you’re going to do what you want, I’m going to do what I want, but you’re not going to like it.
> “HER: What’s that?
> “ME (to the dog): Come here, puppy!
> “HER: He won’t come to you.
> “ME: We’ll see about that…” before adding, “I pull out the dog treats I carry for just for such intransigence. I didn’t even get a chance to toss any treats to the pooch before Karen scrambled to grab the dog.
> “HER: DON’T YOU TOUCH MY DOG!!!!!
> “That’s when I started video recording with my iPhone, and when her inner Karen fully emerged and took a dark turn..
I have no interest in defending or accusing anyone nor in discussing whether her action in the video where motivated and/or reasonable. But to say that she had no basis to perceive this as threathing behaviour (`filing a false police report`) feels a bit of a stretch.
PS: Obviously this topic can be seen from many angles, my response to you comment is almost entirely due to the "false" in "filing a false police report", had you substituted "racially motivated" this comment would be moot.