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|    Rudy Canoza to Yak    |
|    Re: Bird watcher says he won't cooperate    |
|    09 Jul 20 13:04:59    |
      XPost: alt.fan.rush-limbaugh, sac.politics, alt.politics.usa.republican       XPost: can.politics       From: j_carlson@gmx.com              On 7/9/2020 12:56 PM, Yak wrote:       > On 7/9/20 1:58 AM, Rudy Canoza wrote:       >> On 7/8/2020 10:37 PM, Reston wrote:       >>> Central Park Karen’s reportedly getting a break.       >>>       >>> Christian Cooper, an avid bird watcher whose viral video showed a frantic       >>> dog-walking white woman calling 911 to complain that he was “an African       >>> American man threatening my life,” says he wants no part in her       >>> prosecution.       >>>       >>> Quickly dubbed “Central Park Karen,” Amy Cooper’s histrionics were       viewed       >>> more than 100 million times.       >>>       >>> “On the one hand, she’s already paid a steep price,” Cooper, a       Manhattan       >>> resident and member of the New York City Audubon Society, told the New       >>> York Times Tuesday about Amy Cooper, who was publicly shamed and lost her       >>> job after the May 25 racist rant was posted online.       >>>       >>> “That’s not enough of a deterrent to others? Bringing her more misery       just       >>> seems like piling on.”       >>       >> Here's what Cooper should do. I, a nearly 70 year old white male, know       >> what is appropriate here.       >>       >> Cooper should agree to cooperate with the DA, but only under a rather       >> unusual set of conditions. He should say he'll cooperate *IF*, and       >> *ONLY* if, the DA agrees to prosecute the "Karen" on the lowest possible       >> charge, *and* to seek a sentence involving no incarceration.       >>       >> Mr. Cooper apparently feels she has already paid a steep price, and I       >> think he's right. She is virtually unemployable, at least for any       >> position like the prominent one she held with Franklin. But she should       >> *not* escape scot-free from the criminal system. She committed a crime.       >> She *needs* to pay, if only to discourage future "Karens."       >       > Yet you advocate thugs destroying property (statues).              No, I have never advocated that. What I have advocated is that state and       local governments remove all public memorials to the southern traitors and       white supremacists.              --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05        * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)    |
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