“Central Park Karen”, Restorative Justice, & Why We Must Follow Through On These Cases

Remember Amy Cooper, aka “Central Park Karen”? 

She’s the white woman who called the police on a Black man, Christian Cooper, when he asked her to keep her dog on a leash, in compliance with park rules. During their encounter, she said she was going to call the cops and tell them there was an African American man “threatening her life.”

She knew exact…