Maybe I should just stop recording and maybe this will all go away in a split second. I know what trouble that can mean in my life. And if that’s the case, I’m going out with my dignity intact,” he told the AP.įor a second, he added, “I was like, oh, yeah, when a white woman accuses a Black man, I know what that means. “I thought to myself, you know what? They’re going to shoot us dead no matter what we do. He was polite but firm as he spoke off-camera while Amy Cooper raged. (The officer who shot Castile was acquitted by a jury.)Ĭhristian Cooper’s decision to record was personal but routine for birders trying to convince park officials to do something about dogs off leashes where signs clearly prohibited it to protect plantings in The Ramble and leave the birds undisturbed. Castile’s girlfriend, Diamond Reynolds, had the presence of mind to hit record on her phone, and her livestream on Facebook touched off protests around the country. They had no way of knowing that, of course, but Christian Cooper told The Associated Press in a recent interview he had another Black man, Philando Castile, on his mind when he flipped his phone camera to record.Ĭastile was fatally shot in the Minneapolis area in 2016 by an officer who wrongly thought the 32-year-old was reaching for a gun during a traffic stop. Just hours later, George Floyd was killed under the knee of a white police officer more than 1,000 miles away in Minneapolis. Something else happened the day the two Coopers clashed. “Extraordinary Birder with Christian Cooper” premieres Saturday.
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He scored a memoir, out this week, and has his own series on Nat Geo Wild, traveling the U.S. Later, a misdemeanor charge against her was dropped after she completed a program on racial bias. She was fired by an investment firm and a judge tossed her lawsuit challenging the dismissal. His video of her pleading with a 911 operator to “send the cops” because, she falsely claimed, an African American man was threatening her life has been viewed more than 45 million times on social media. The dog owner is Amy Cooper, who is white and no relation. NEW YORK (AP) - 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 woman walking her dog off leash in his refuge.Ĭooper is a lifelong birder, and Black, a relative rarity for the pastime.
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