<!-- wp:html --><p>Facebook/Melody Cooper</p>
<p><a href="https://www.thedailybeast.com/of-course-central-park-karen-amy-cooper-got-a-sweetheart-deal">Amy Cooper</a>, the white woman who <a href="https://www.thedailybeast.com/amy-cooper-to-be-charged-after-calling-cops-on-black-birder-in-central-park">called the cops on a Black birdwatcher</a> in Central Park and falsely claimed he was threatening her life, is still not done playing the victim.</p>
<p>In an op-ed published by <a href="https://www.newsweek.com/i-was-branded-central-park-karen-i-still-live-hiding-1839483"><em>Newsweek</em></a> on Tuesday, more than three years after the incident, Cooper placed the blame on birdwatcher Christian Cooper for instigating the viral incident, and raised a host of reasons to justify her behavior, from pandemic anxieties, to childhood sexual assault, to poor phone reception.</p>
<p>“As Christian’s video went viral, my life, as I knew it, was over,” she wrote.</p>
<p><a href="https://www.thedailybeast.com/central-park-karen-amy-cooper-plays-the-victim-in-wild-op-ed">Read more at The Daily Beast.</a></p><!-- /wp:html -->
In an op-ed published by Newsweek on Tuesday, more than three years after the incident, Cooper placed the blame on birdwatcher Christian Cooper for instigating the viral incident, and raised a host of reasons to justify her behavior, from pandemic anxieties, to childhood sexual assault, to poor phone reception.
“As Christian’s video went viral, my life, as I knew it, was over,” she wrote.
