In our sad, sick, and stupid times, individual justice administered in a court of law has evidently been sidelined for the collectivist cult of social justice. Such is the case with Amy Cooper, the Manhattan woman made famous from a viral video showing her lying to 911 that a black bystander, Christian Cooper (no relation), was threatening her.
In the Washington Post opinion pages, Christian, an ardent birder who had asked Amy to abide by Central Park rules that dogs in certain areas be kept on a leash, explained his much-lauded decision not to cooperate with the district attorney’s investigation charging Amy with a misdemeanor for filing a false police report. Quite frankly, his defense renders a seemingly inexplicable decision even less understandable. Christian writes:
