NEW YORK (1010 WIN) – Amy Cooper has filed a federal lawsuit against her former employer a year after she called police on a Black birdwatcher in Central Park and was fired.
Cooper—who became known as “Central Park Karen” following the viral incident on May 25, 2020—argued in a lawsuit filed in Manhattan federal court late Tuesday that she was fired by investment firm Franklin Templeton the next day without an investigation and that she was falsely portrayed as racist in a tweet announcing her firing, according to Bloomberg.
In the suit, Cooper said she suffered “such severe emotional distress that she was suicidal,” Reuters reported.
Cooper is alleging race and gender discrimination, defamation, negligence and intentional infliction of emotional distress, according to the report.
Following the encounter in Central Park, Cooper was charged with filing a false police report last summer. The charge was dismissed in February after she completed an educational program on race.
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