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Charges Against ‘Central Park Karen’ Dismissed After She Completes ‘Racial Bias’ Training

Emily Zanotti
Charges Against ‘Central Park Karen’ Dismissed After She Completes ‘Racial Bias’ Training
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The woman known as “Central Park Karen” is no longer facing charges of filing a false police report after she completed a series of “racial bias training” sessions.

Amy Cooper, who was captured on video threatening to call police on a black birdwatcher in New York City’s Central Park could have faced up to a year in prison for the single misdemeanor charge of “falsely reporting an incident” according to The New York Times, but Monday, a judge granted city prosecutors’ request to drop the charges after Cooper completed “a therapeutic educational program that included instruction about racial biases.”

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