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It’s time to hold white people accountable for indiscriminate discrimination

L.A. Fosner
3 min readAug 13, 2021

Remember the woman who threatened to call the police on the black man who asked her to leash her dog in Central Park? She lost her job, but then she sued the company that fired her.

After completing an undisclosed amount of “therapy” which included “instruction about racial bias,” the charges against her were dropped.

According to her lawyer “After a thorough and honest inquiry, the New York [district attorney’s] office dismissed all charges today against Amy Cooper. We thank them for their integrity and concur with the outcome.”

I’m not sure what her lawyer’s definition of “integrity” is but it’s not the same as mine. When has a black person been charged with anything and had the charges dropped after “therapy”? I believe that answer would be NEVER.

George Floyd was murdered over $20.

Barnes went on to say, “Others rushed to the wrong conclusion based on inadequate investigation and they may yet face legal consequences.” How is a video of a woman threatening to call the police on a black man for doing nothing more than reminding her to put her dog on a leash something that requires investigation?

We all saw it. We all heard it. There is nothing to investigate here, we know what happened…

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L.A. Fosner
L.A. Fosner

Written by L.A. Fosner

Writer/Activist/Humorist/Catalyst for Change. Dispelling the myth of white/male supremacy, and removing religion from government. ProLIFE, not ProBIRTH.

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