From the 2nd publication by CBS News for the same story, quoting Mr. Cooper as saying "That act was unmistakably racist":
Yes, why did you, since the video shows that she was about to leash her dog when you started recording her and that the reason she got upset was that she looked up, saw you recording her, asked you to stop several times and you wouldn't?
The video shows that she asked him to turn the camera off and he wouldn't. That's not what the article says; the article is misleading. Also, Amy Cooper could not have known what he meant, so why is what he said to her reduced in every article about it to his explanation or not even mentioned at all, and if he knows that dog owners "resent" it when he tries to give their dogs treats, then why does he do it, and why does he expect that it won't cause conflict? If you don't know someone, how can that person know that the treat isn't poisoned or that you're not going to grab the dog? At the very least anyone who wants to feed something to someone else's pet should ask the owner first.
How CBS News presents the video:
How Melody Cooper actually presented the video:
Mr. Cooper also called Amy Cooper a "Karen" in the Facebook post that he wrote about her.
CBS News doesn't show most of the video. It doesn't show Amy Cooper being about to leash her dog at the beginning of the video. It doesn't show her looking up and asking him to stop. It doesn't show anything leading up to the phone call, in which she asked him several times to stop recording her.
Melody Cooper was contacted by the media on the day that she posted the video; there's at least one Tweet about that in the thread. She also already has an M&E job, which is shown in her Twitter profile. The media exaggerated this story and presented it in a misleading and unfair way, and Amy Cooper's life has been threatened by people misled by the media many times since then.
In my opinion, this act was unmistakably racist: Christian and Melody Cooper ganged up on a white woman. The way the media has dealt with the story is unmistakably misogynistic and also exploitative. The media and several prominent people have conflated this minor incident with murders that were simultaneously receiving media attention.
Women are already being harassed online 24 hours/day in every country, and have been for years while the media fails to report about the scope of the harassment problem. The way that Amy Cooper has been demonized is going to make that problem worse for women.
Everyone who was part of this incident was just having a bad day. There's no reason for distortions of the incident to be made permanently misleading as the incident's historical record.