The woman dubbed 'Central Park Karen' has been charged with filing a false police report after accusing a black man of threatening her life.
Manhattan's District Attorney Cy Vance said Amy Cooper, 41, will face misdemeanor charges over the incident, which happened on May 25 and quickly went viral. "We are strongly committed to holding perpetrators of this conduct accountable," Mr Vance said in a statement.
Filing a false report is a misdemeanor punishable by up to one year in jail. Cooper had been walking her dog in an area of Central Park known as the Ramble when she encountered Christian Cooper, an avid bird-watcher not related to her.
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