- Target:
- Governor Andrew Cuomo
- Region:
- United States of America
NY GOV. CUOMO PUSHING TO PASS “AMY COOPER” FALSE ACCUSATION BILL
The incident in Central Park between a white woman named Amy Cooper and black, male bird watcher is a leading reason.
“We’ve seen 911 calls which are race-based, false calls. A false 911 call based on race should be classified as a hate crime in the state of New York,” Cuomo said.
Under Assemblyman Felix Ortiz (D-Brooklyn) bill, violators could face between 1 and 5 years in prison, which is in accordance to the state’s hate crime statute “if the motivation for reporting such crime is motivated by a perception or belief about their race, color, national origin, ancestry, gender, religion, religious practice, age, disability or sexual orientation.”
“The bottom line is: We should be using better judgment. Racism gets created, and I think that by making false reporting because of gender or religion is completely unacceptable and intolerable,” Ortiz told the Post.
While the intent of the bill is justified and has integrity, the naming of the bill is not justified nor does it have integrity.
Bills of this type are passed to honor the injustices and harm done to the victim. In all cases the bill is named after the victim. However, in this case, the bill is wrongly named after the perpetrator.
We, the undersigned, call on Governor Cuomo to rename the bill to The Chrisitian Cooper False Accusation bill to give honor to the gentlemen who could have wrongly lost his dignity, livelihood or even worse, lost his life due to her bodacious lies.
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The The Amy Cooper Bill should be renamed Christian Cooper Bill petition to Governor Andrew Cuomo was written by Joyful Wilson and is in the category Law & Order at GoPetition.