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   Message 90,533 of 92,004   
   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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