This violent week gave us a martyr, a tragedy, and a whole wave of riots. It has also given us a whole new category of social-political animal: the Amy Cooper species of liberal, whose progressive views are conditioned on her convenience and snap at the first sign of strain.

Cooper is the dog walker who confronted bird-watcher Christian Cooper (no relation) in the Ramble in Central Park in Manhattan on May 24 and threatened to call the police on him. Actually, it was Christian Cooper, who is both male and black, who first confronted Amy Cooper and asked her to put her dog on its leash — required in that part of the park, because loose dogs are disturbing to birds and bird-watchers.