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VIDEO: Man whose bird-watching trip was ruined by a racist incident returns to Central Park
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After racist park encounter, Chris Cooper takes us birding in Central Park

Chris Cooper’s encounter with a white woman went viral after he asked her to put a leash on her dog and she called the police claiming he was an “African-American man threatening my life."

Video by Faith Bernstein, Nidhi Singh, Joshua Thomas

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