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Amy Cooper's apology (Original Post) Demovictory9 May 2020 OP
What in the hell is she talking about? SCantiGOP May 2020 #1
Ditto. Tipperary May 2020 #7
HA! Good luck with that. BigmanPigman May 2020 #2
BS Like That Only Works When You're A Drumpf sfstaxprep May 2020 #3
Guess I'm missing something ... seems okay to me afa apologies goes mr_lebowski May 2020 #4
You're missing the outrage pointed at the "second most hated person in America" Bradshaw3 May 2020 #6
Uh, it IS the "I'm sorry if people were offended" kind csziggy May 2020 #11
She also says what she did was unacceptable, which you omitted mr_lebowski May 2020 #18
She does not apologize for threatening to lie to the police csziggy May 2020 #19
I'm not saying she didn't totally f*** up and isn't presumably a very lame, racist person ... mr_lebowski May 2020 #22
she was aware of her white privilege when she called the cops Demovictory9 May 2020 #21
See Post #22 mr_lebowski May 2020 #23
Amy Cooper's a fucking Liar who lost her job. Cha May 2020 #5
Is this her "best" MagickMuffin May 2020 #8
That man mercuryblues May 2020 #10
She damn near hung the dog. MrsCoffee May 2020 #13
That's a white privilege apology, that's what that is. Canoe52 May 2020 #9
+1. She really tried to give him the death penalty for talking out of turn dalton99a May 2020 #15
A Better Plan, Amy ProfessorGAC May 2020 #12
"Ok, I guess I'm supposed to say sorry to somebody - because that man made me look bad" dalton99a May 2020 #14
Translation : "I'm sorry I got caught". bullwinkle428 May 2020 #16
That's the root of "make America great again" SCantiGOP May 2020 #17
Imagine having to work with this person. roamer65 May 2020 #20

BigmanPigman

(51,432 posts)
2. HA! Good luck with that.
Tue May 26, 2020, 12:54 AM
May 2020

She is already the most hated person today (besides Dear Leader that is). That BS apology will make things worse...another fucking moron.

sfstaxprep

(9,998 posts)
3. BS Like That Only Works When You're A Drumpf
Tue May 26, 2020, 12:59 AM
May 2020

The only thing missing was....."IF I've offended anybody, I'm sorry."

 

mr_lebowski

(33,643 posts)
4. Guess I'm missing something ... seems okay to me afa apologies goes
Tue May 26, 2020, 01:01 AM
May 2020

At least it's not the 'I'm sorry if people were offended' kind.

Bradshaw3

(7,455 posts)
6. You're missing the outrage pointed at the "second most hated person in America"
Tue May 26, 2020, 01:26 AM
May 2020

She has surpassed the neo-Nazis, spineless repub officials and serial killers in deserving our enmity.

csziggy

(34,120 posts)
11. Uh, it IS the "I'm sorry if people were offended" kind
Tue May 26, 2020, 06:10 AM
May 2020

From the article linked in the OP"

"I humbly and fully apologize to everyone who’s seen that video, everyone that’s been offended"

She's just trying to cover her ass at this point - and to save her job now that she has been put on leave.

 

mr_lebowski

(33,643 posts)
18. She also says what she did was unacceptable, which you omitted
Tue May 26, 2020, 10:50 AM
May 2020

And apologized to everyone who's seen the video. The people who are offended are a subset based on the verbiage.

It's not "I'm sorry if I offended anyone" and that's it.

I don't mind if someone apologizes for offending people as long as it's accompanied by a humble apology and admission of wrongdoing. She also seemed to understand why it was wrong insofar as she seems to be aware of her white privilege.

It's not perfect but it's not terrible is all I'm saying. I've seen more feeble (and/or even more offensive) public attempts at contrition than this one.

csziggy

(34,120 posts)
19. She does not apologize for threatening to lie to the police
Tue May 26, 2020, 11:02 AM
May 2020

And then following through on that threat. She KNEW that Chris Cooper never threatened her or her dog, but she used her threat to claim that to authorities in an attempt to intimidate him. To me, that shows that she had a full understanding of the possible outcome of that reporting, yet she went ahead and did it, police did show up after she had left the scene. Fortunately for Mr. Cooper, they realized that he was not a threat to any park goer or themselves.

As others have indicated, her actions could have had tragic consequences, but she only acknowledges her "white privilege" ignoring the fact that her own threats indicated that she did understand that privilege and how dire a claim to police of an aggressive black man could end up for that man.

In her apology she does not name Chris Cooper, she refers to him as "that man" even though by the time she released her apology his name was well known and could not have been missed by her.

Her apology is not enough to close this incident. There need to be more consequences to her - even more than losing the ownership of the dog she abused during the incident. I'm waiting for charges of a false police report, as hers definitely was.

 

mr_lebowski

(33,643 posts)
22. I'm not saying she didn't totally f*** up and isn't presumably a very lame, racist person ...
Tue May 26, 2020, 06:11 PM
May 2020

I've just seen a lot less sincere apologies in my day.

Maybe the bar has just been set so low by most assholes like her, I expect the worst.

This isn't the worst by any stretch.

It also ain't great by any stretch.

Demovictory9

(32,324 posts)
21. she was aware of her white privilege when she called the cops
Tue May 26, 2020, 01:38 PM
May 2020

the emphasize on "AFRICAN AMERICAN"... so her apology has a lie imbedded in it... as if she's just now aware..

she was aware...that is why she called the cops... she was hoping the birder's skin color would get him beaten, arrested, whatever.

MagickMuffin

(15,893 posts)
8. Is this her "best"
Tue May 26, 2020, 01:43 AM
May 2020

"I sincerely and humbly apologize to everyone, especially to that man, his family," she said in a phone call. "It was unacceptable and I humbly and fully apologize to everyone who’s seen that video, everyone that’s been offended…everyone who thinks of me in a lower light and I understand why they do."

"When I think about the police, I’m such a blessed person. I’ve come to realize especially today that I think of [the police] as a protection agency, and unfortunately, this has caused me to realize that there are so many people in this country that don’t have that luxury," she continued.



Everyone should know by now THAT man is Christian Cooper. She could have at least addressed him as Mr. Cooper since they both have the same freaking last name.

mercuryblues

(14,491 posts)
10. That man
Tue May 26, 2020, 05:14 AM
May 2020

Not the gentleman who or as you said, Mr. Cooper.

All because she didn't want to keep her dog on a leash. By her behavior and how the dog was acting, she had no control over it, he was right to ask her to do so.

MrsCoffee

(5,801 posts)
13. She damn near hung the dog.
Tue May 26, 2020, 07:12 AM
May 2020

She had to “voluntarily surrender” the dog to animal rescue while they look into her treatment of it.

But at least she’s blessed.

SCantiGOP

(13,856 posts)
17. That's the root of "make America great again"
Tue May 26, 2020, 10:25 AM
May 2020

In the 1950s, she would have gotten away with this.
In rural Alabama, she would probably have gotten away with this.
She is mad because her word was not automatically taken over the evidence from “that man.”

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