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- A woman has been suspended from a global investment firm after a video showed her calling the police on a black man who asked her to put her dog on a leash.
- A video with more than 18 million views shows the woman, later identified as Amy Cooper, reacting to the request by telling police: "there's an African American man threatening my life."
- Cooper apologized in an interview with NBC New York and said that she felt "threatened" during the encounter.
- As the backlash mounted, investment firm Franklin Templeton said it was investigating and had suspended an employee.
- It did not name Cooper, but NBC New York reported that she was the woman in question.
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A global investment firm has suspended a woman after a racially-charged video circulated of her calling the police on a man who apparently told her to put her dog on a leash.
The video showed Amy Cooper threatening Christian Cooper, who is black. (It is a coincidence that the two have the same surname.)
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