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Fair price? Depends on who you ask. I personally don't feel bad for her. I think it's the perfect kind of informal punishment. She is probably whining to people today about how her life has been ruined and how unfair it is and how she is being unfairly characterized as a racist. After all, she gets along great with her coworker Nichelle, so how can she be a racist? If I am sizing her up right, she's the type of woman who lives to be a victim, so this kind of punishment is undoubtedly causing her even more anguish in that she may be insistent that she's being wronged. If I am wrong about her, and she learns anything from it, great.

I can't speak for what is in her head, but I have met women like her, and seen them in action behaving that way, and I know NYC.

My guesses. ... Was she scared of him? I doubt she ever actually stopped to consider if she was really scared. I mean, she immediately created drama in her own head, so maybe she was scared, but if she was, it wasn't based on any objective reality. She was exposed to way freakier people in Central Park that day than a geeky, 50-something bird watching Dudley DoRight. And I doubt she called the cops on any of them.

There is sort of a permanent anger / chip-on-the-shoulder in people like her, and they default to drama queen and victim at the blink of an eye. If she was scared of him, it obviously wasn't for anything he did in the video. Supposedly he had tried to give her dog something to eat, and most people if a stranger did that, would have gotten the hell away from the guy. But she came toward him in the video, so she couldn't have really have been scared, if you think it through.

Using race to get what she wanted? Of course. She called 911 and it's obvious she thought the code words "African American male" and using a voice like there was a knife to her throat would give more force to her claim. But I'd guess it was more about her being a drama queen and turning herself into a victim than her looking to target black men.

Did she go after him because of his skin color? I doubt it. If he hadn't provoked her outrage by having the temerity to ask her to put the dog on the leash she would have taken her pissed off act somewhere else. Once he did engage her, though, yeah, "African American male threatening me" wasn't any problem for her.

 

I think you might be surprised. I know the default is for people to assume cops / black guy / woman pointing a finger / brutality.

But I feel like I know both of them. Those kinds of people are a staple in Central Park during the day.

If I know them like the back of my hand, any cop who would have been around there knows them. So I actually would guess it likely would have gotten handled with annoyance and an eye roll from any cop who was nearby. Likely ending with, "Why don't you put your dog on the leash, Ma'am?"

When things go wrong with cops and black men, it's usually not in a setting like that. Maybe the East Village, where a bunch of people have gathered on a corner. Definitely in a subway station in East New York. But a cop in that situation would have likely seen "older geeky guy" before they saw "black thug." And they likely would have sized her up pretty quickly, too.