2/ As @emarvelous wrote in May, the Amy Cooper incident is rooted in an idea, backed by generations of violence, that White womanhood is to be protected and that Black men are inherently criminal.https://bit.ly/3dD9gpr
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1/ Amy Cooper, the White woman who called the police on a Black bird-watcher in Central Park, made a second, previously unreported call to 911 in which she falsely claimed that the man "tried to assault her," a prosecutor said on Wednesday.
Via @nytimes:https://www.nytimes.com/2020/10/14/nyregion/amy-cooper-false-report-charge.html …
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3/3 "Who doesn't know that calling the police on Black people risks them being shot?" said Robin DiAngelo. "This invokes a history of terror. When a White woman says, 'I'm going to call the police,' she's basically saying, 'You might die.'"https://bit.ly/3dD9gpr
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