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Amy Cooper Recently Said She Had "No Choice" But to Call the Police on Christian Cooper for Bird Watching

On a recent episode of the "Honestly" podcast, Amy Cooper, reversed course from her original apology to Black birdwatcher, Christian Cooper.

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Donney Rose
Aug 05, 2021
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Amy Cooper calling the police on Christian Cooper in Central Park; Image via AJ+ on Twitter

May 25, 2020, was one of the most anti-Black days in modern American history. In one part of the country, Derek Chauvin was murdering George Floyd on a Minneapolis sidewalk for the alleged crime of using counterfeit money at Cup Foods, and on the same day, a white…

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