There’s nothing that can keep Christian Cooper from enjoying his happy place, the bird-friendly Ramble of New York's Central Park
Castile was fatally shot in the Minneapolis area in 2016 by an officer who wrongly thought the 32-year-old was reaching for a gun during a traffic stop. Castile's girlfriend, Diamond Reynolds, had the presence of mind to hit record on her phone, and her livestream on Facebook touched off protests around the country.
For a second, he added, “I was like, oh, yeah, when a white woman accuses a Black man, I know what that means. I know what trouble that can mean in my life. Maybe I should just stop recording and maybe this will all go away in a split second. Then I thought, nah, I’m not going to be complicit in my own dehumanization.”
Amy Cooper demanded he stop recording, upset when he offered her cocker spaniel, Henry, a dog treat. It's a tactic controversial among birders frustrated by unleashed dogs in The Ramble. “It's a very in-your-face move. You know, no bones about that. I haven’t done it since,” he said. “The cure to my outsider status was to go outside, outside of myself, outside of my own head, outside into nature. Because you can’t go looking for birds without really focusing on what you’re doing, and focusing on the natural world around you,” he said.As a longtime board member of the New York City Audubon Society, Cooper has seen the ranks of Black birders increase, and he has participated into cast off the name of John James Audubon.
On Nat Geo , Cooper serves as host and was a consulting producer. He’s a kid in a wonderful, winged candy shop.
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