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On the morning of May 25, 2020, portfolio manager Amy Cooper was walking her dog in an area of New York City's Central Park known as the Ramble.Comic book writer and editor Christian Cooper was birdwatching there and noticed that Amy's dog was unleashed and running free, [4] despite the requirement that dogs in that part of the park be on-leash set by the Central Park Conservancy, which ...
Christian Cooper, the Central Park Birder, never intended for any of this to happen. When his video went viral after a racially charged encounter with a dog walker in the park’s Ramble, Cooper ...
There's nothing that can keep Christian Cooper from enjoying his “happy place,” the bird-friendly Ramble of Central Park — not even his tense, viral video encounter three years ago with a ...
Cooper, 61, launched the National Geographic show Extraordinary Birder with Christian Cooper in 2023 following his unexpected rise to viral fame due to the incident.
Christian Cooper (born 1963) is an American science writer and editor, and also a comics writer and editor. He is based in New York City. In 2023, Random House published Cooper's memoir, Better Living Through Birding: Notes from a Black Man in the Natural World. He gained cultural notoriety after a false police report was made by a white woman ...
Cooper joined Franklin Templeton in 2015, and was working as an insurance portfolio manager when a May 25, 2020 video showed her appearing agitated after confronting the bird-watcher Christian ...
Kony 2012 – An online video created by Invisible Children, Inc. to highlight the criminal acts of Joseph Kony to an international spotlight as part of a campaign to seek his capture and arrest, quickly gained tens of millions of viewers within a week, becoming, according to CNN, "the most viral YouTube video of all time". [76] [77]
The video — posted on Facebook by Christian Cooper and on Twitter by his sister — sparked accusations of racism and led to Amy Cooper getting fired. Woman fired after backlash from racist park ...