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ok I actually read the OP link. Answered some of my questions, sorry.

Right there in the title it can be seen that it's the Manhattan DA who's filing.

“Today our office initiated a prosecution of Amy Cooper,” said DA Cyrus Vance Jr. in a statement.

“Our office will provide the public with additional information as the case proceeds. At this time I would like to encourage anyone who has been the target of false reporting to contact our office. We are strongly committed to holding perpetrators of this conduct accountable.”

And more evidence about the incident:

In a now-viral May video that sparked international outrage, Cooper, a white woman, can be seen telling birdwatcher Christian Cooper she is going to call the cops and “tell them there’s an African American man threatening my life.”

“Please tell them whatever you like,” Christian, who is no relation, responds.

After another pause, she appears suddenly shaken up as she cries: “I’m sorry, I can’t hear … I’m being threatened by a man in the Ramble, please send the cops immediately.”

Here's the video link

He also said "please call the cops" when she said "I'm going to call the cops". And "thank you" when she did. She made threatening gestures towards him when he started recording her and she asked him to stop and he didn't stop recording. Would she really have done that if she felt threatened? He wasn't coming towards her while she was on the phone, though I know things can change in an instant.

I don't think the "caren act" thing is right and clearly there is a lot of racism towards whites, but we need to keep the rule of law here. She should be fairly tried like anyone, not assumed innocent because she's white and he's black and the Covington thing happened too.

Idk. I feel like it's being exaggerated here how clear cut a case this is.

It does seem like a bad precedent to set that it's dangerous to call 911 when you're not feeling safe. "Racism" isn't a crime, a false 911 call is a crime. I worry about the precedent this would set if people start being criminalized for 911 calls that don't turn out to be that bad.