If the New York media hadn't manipulated the public, there would be no Cooper story.
Christian Cooper is not dead and was never in danger. Amy Cooper did not "play the victim"; she was upset, and Mr. Cooper was uninterested in trying to defuse a situation that he created when he insisted on filming her with his phone when she was about to leash her dog, per his request.
I don't like continuing to point out how unpleasant Mr. Cooper was; he's probably a nice guy most of the time. I wish that the people who are keeping this story going would stop.
Many of the people who have responded to that Tweet have said that you should be voted out of office. The longer you leave the Tweet pinned, the truer that will be. If you can't admit that you have made a mistake, or at least stop making the mistake, then you shouldn't have the power to affect other people's lives.
A lawyer who cannot or who doesn't want to distinguish facts is not a good lawyer. A lawyer who is deliberately misleading is a bad lawyer.
Nobody is going to blame you for not liking Amy Cooper, but you do not have the right to call her a murderer. She's the only white name listed at that Tweet, as if the black people in that list who did die were killed by nameless people.
What do you want me to say? That when I went out the other day and there was a black family whose little girl was flying a kite with a white Barbie on it, I didn't feel bad? I felt bad. I felt bad for the little girl that this was the kite she wanted. I felt bad for the parents; what were they supposed to say to her when they were at the store? "No, you can't have this kite. It makes me want to cry that you even want this kite, when there are others to choose from. I don't want to make a big deal out of it, but when you're flying this kite we're going to be the bad parents who aren't supporting you not to internalize racism?" Those parents weren't having a good day.
