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Christian Cooper Showed Us the Awesome Power of Self-Control

Christian Cooper Showed Us the Awesome Power of Self-Control
Dawn breaks over Manhattan and Central Park as the city struggles to contain the number of coronavirus cases in New York City on March 18, 2020. Spencer Platt/Getty Images
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I come here not to condemn Amy Cooper, the white woman who called police and falsely claimed that an African American man named Christian Cooper was attacking her, but rather to praise Christian Cooper, who had done nothing more than ask her to leash her dog. The confrontation happened in New York’s Central Park, where dogs are supposed to be kept on leashes.

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