Woman in Central Park incident ‘made second false claim’ to police, court told

Amy Cooper talks with Christian Cooper in Central Park in New York (Christian Cooper/AP)

Amy Cooper, the white woman charged with filing a false police report for calling 911 during a dispute with a black man in New York’s Central Park in May, made a second, previously unreported call in which she falsely claimed the man had “tried to assault her”, a prosecutor said.

Assistant District Attorney Joan Illuzzi-Orbon described the second call as Cooper was being arraigned by video in a case that had garnered worldwide attention but was put on hold for months because of the coronavirus pandemic.