Amy Cooper, the white woman who called police on a Black man bird-watching in Central Park, lost her lawsuit against Franklin Templeton, the investment firm that fired her following the incident. She had alleged she was fired on basis of race and sex.
against her former employer, investment firm Franklin Templeton, where she worked as a portfolio manager.
She was fired the day after she called the police on Christian Cooper after he asked her to put her dog on a leash, in a part of the park where dogs are required to be leashed. Amy Cooper additionally claimed she was being held to a double standard at her job due to her sex, after three male staffers were not fired following allegations of sexual harassment and insider trading, as well as a domestic violence conviction.
"The misconduct that Plaintiff's proposed comparators allegedly engaged in — which runs the gamut from plagiarism to insider trading to a felony conviction — is simply too different in kind to be comparable to her conduct in this case," Abrams said.