U.S. District Judge Ronnie Abrams rejected Cooper’s claim Wednesday that she was defamed when former employer Franklin Templeton, a holding company, axed her a day after the viral fight in Central Park. Cooper alleged that Franklin Templeton and its chief executive Jenny Johnson perpetuated her image as a “privileged white woman ‘Karen’” by making public statements about her firing after an investigation into the incident. In May 2020, Cooper went viral after a video showed her yelling at birder Christian Cooper and calling the police alleging an “African-American man” was “threatening” her while she was walking her dog in Central Park. An image from the viral video shows Amy Cooper calling the police to claim she was threatened by an African-American man while walking her dog. APAmy Cooper’s claims have been thrown out by a judge after she claimed her former employer wrongfully fired her and labeled her a racist. Her lawsuit, filed in May 2021, argued that her call to the cops had nothing to do with Christian’s breed — but because the “overzealous bird watcher” singled her out as a “target” in a dispute between bird lovers and dogs. Cooper was charged by the Manhattan District Attorney in July 2020 with third-degree false reporting of an incident. The charge was eventually dropped by prosecutors after she attended therapy sessions for racial bias, yet she lost her job. She worked at Franklin Templeton as an insurance portfolio manager since 2015. Footage from the video shows Amy Cooper yelling at Christian Cooper in Central Park in New York.AP Cooper claimed in her suit that her former employer’s statements, which received more than 200,000 likes on Twitter, implied that the company had revealed details about her alleged racism not shown in the video, but the Manhattan judge disagreed. “The content of the viral video, as well as the discourse surrounding it in both the media and social media, were already matters of public knowledge,” making the defendants’ statements “inoperative as pure opinion,” Abrams wrote in his decision . By postal cables