I love how people “feel threatened” while continue to harass the person they are “scared” of. If you are actually afraid of someone, you try to get away from them, not harass them until there is violence.

_"I'm going to tell them there is an Áfrican American threatening my life"_ This really was a death threat and we all know why. She knew what she was doing.

For 20 years, I have had more than enough of dealing with these Karens. Finally, they are getting called out for their behavior. Good.

I'm so glad that people are recognizing and calling this dangerous behavior out. I hope that we start to consistently prosecute across the country for it

I have dealt with many a Karen, in my life, and it is always a hair-raising experience. I find the undercurrent of violence especially scary because it isn't predictable. You think you are conversing with a normal, rational person and all of a sudden you inadvertently trigger inexplicable aggression.

I love how society is finally fighting back against Karens everywhere.

I was born and raised in NYC. Living in the city taught me tolerance of all people (except jerks). Amy Cooper raised the hackles of many with her garbage. She actually shocked me with her ridiculousness. This was indeed infuriating.

Thank you for a clever analysis. Though I would add: She acts in the confidence that it is her country, her justice, her police.

In the old days before camera phones he’d be dead and she’d be getting praised as “brave”.

The simple fact that “Karen” is a thing with a legit definition is hilariously depressing

Karen behavior--and this in particular-- reminds me of the character in To Kill a Mockingbird, Mayella Ewell, who hysterically accuses a Black man of rape. We come to find out that Mayella has been raped by her own father, a man she cannot accuse, and therefore she rages against the Black man who will surely be punished--because he is Black. This connection by illustration could provide basis for understanding some of the Karen-type hysteria fueling racism today. People who act on racist impulses are irrational, and it would help to end the normalization of racism.

I have been binge watching your KZfaq videos. I am just fascinated at how eloquent and cohesive and objective you analyze your cases.

She should have been arrested for making a false report.

Why she is not Arrested for making false report is mind boggling. Even though Evidence is very much clear. This is Two tier justice system in America for citizens.

Christian Cooper seems like a sensible, intelligent man. He is defending her even though she basically put his life at risk.

She is an actress! I like your take on the people who become “perfect little angels” in court when they are criminals on the street. Teachers see this behavior in troubled students when they are called out. They become angels in conferences with parents, principals, and counselors and point the blame at teachers for harassing them. They are master manipulators and quite calculated. It shocked me the first time I saw the transformation, but I’ve see it countless times now.

Just a side note: She didn't surrender the dog, the rescue group came and got the dog because of mistreatment.

How many black men are in jail or prison because of a “Karen”?

I cannot believe I’m watching an analysis of the Karen. This is peak times my friend. The future is coming. Lmaooo. Love it.

How did people like this become known as "Karens" to begin with?🤔 One of the kindest people I have ever known is named Karen.

Also, public safety disclaimer: don't engage with a Karen. This can lead to becoming a Karen yourself. Just find a safe non-Karen area and call for help. PS love your videos.

Just imagine how all the people actually named "Karen" feel...😂

Sadly stupid incidents like these happen DAILY for...particular Americans! You're absolutely right, she was not only a threat to this innocent man, but to the entire community! The law should start taking cases like these more seriously

Plenty of Karen’s out there that don’t act this way. Love my name.

They need to start arresting people who make false reports! For sure there are a lot of people around the world who got killed because somebody made false report!

My question is why she didn't get charged. This is a classic Jussie Smollett!

I always think about the tik tok of a mother named Karen who wanted to change her name because of “all the jokes about Karens on Facebook” 😂💀

I am also an experienced therapist, and you're spot on. Given how cops react to black people, he could easily ended up arrested, beaten up, falsely charged, or dead.

True story, scouts honor ✌🏽. She was my neighbor in NYC for 3 years and her old dog “Oliver” bit me on the arm in 2014. I didn’t make a big deal about it, he was a small old dog and shit happens, she was initially apologetic but turned rageful when I wanted to know her name and apt number in case I needed to forward a doctors bill. That was followed by 3 years of clashing with this woman every time we saw each other. Once her dog came after me and my two dogs in the hallway, I yelled at her dog to stop, she said “how dare you shout at my dog you fucking (inaudible).” I may have called her a “C-U-Next-Tuesday “ I’m not very confrontational, and she was the only person I ever had to defend myself against in NYC (and I worked in a sketchy neighborhood). I believe she is a racist and an elitist. She hated having a Hispanic neighbor in “her” luxury apartment building. Believe me, this was a long time coming. As far as the assessment that she has impulse control, I can personally attest to that. I was and am still very good friends with many of the staff of that building, she was always the building joke and was known for her Karen behavior. Just a few stories I remember. -She invites a guy upto her apartment (she was notoriously single and in desperate need of a mans, ahem, affection), only to chase after him out the door about 5 minutes later. Apparently he wasn’t into it. Her sexual frustration was obvious when she came back and yelled at the doorman for laughing. -Winter 2015. My building was on the Hudson and the neighborhood was very windy during winter. The doorman was helping a woman with a stroller through the door when she struggled with the other door, which she took offense to. She made a scene in the lobby on how she expected to have the door opened for her because that’s what she pays for. There is a spinning rotary door as well, she’s just a privileged bitch. -Ah, and my favorite. My wife was talking to the concierge with our two dogs by her side. Old crusty cooch rolls up and tells her that dog walkers have to use the side entrance and the front entrance is for residents only (Not True). My wife is Latina, and she’s mean y’all. She lit into her and called her a racist bitch. She told the building management a bunch of lies, that my wife spit at her and she wanted us removed. Of course none of the video and witnesses backed her up. We moved to a different tower within the same building and didn’t see her as much after that, but still heard stories about her clashing with staff members and residents. I was never a real believer in Karma, but this one makes me a believer. She is a bully. She has a mean and ugly heart. She tried to make me feel inferior. But I’m a combat veteran and I earned my right for a seat at the table. She deserves every bit of what she’s going through.

She didn't care about being recorded because she knew all she had to say was that she was SCARED.

I just feel bad for Karens who aren't "Karens".

Ok, so I haven't watched this video fully or the original video ever, so I have no idea how crazy this woman gets. But honestly I don't understand why the guy did what he did first. Why is he so caught up on enforcing the rules? Kinda seems like a Karen himself.

Her temper tantrum could’ve got that poor man killed.

Definitely a false report, and her intent was malicious, I can’t imagine how many other people she has already victimised she seems remorseless to me.

A “Karen” was once known as a “scold” and I believe that under Common Law being a common scold was a tort

🙌🙌 Spot on! Dr. Todd. What causes someone to snap like this ...stress? I know she's very insecure about her place in society- (Note how she wields her aggression and power on the dog) It reminds me of an overwhelmed parent abusing their child😣😢😤

She WAS thinking. That’s why she said “African-American” instead of the “N” word. She knew exactly what she was doing and thought she was covering her bigotry. That’s why she didn’t care that she was being recorded.

Imagine the "stunts" she's probably pulled at work.

I don't like it when people have their dogs unleashed either, so at first I liked Christian Cooper's trick of offering the dog a treat. (The owner will immediately leash their dog because they are afraid the treat is poisoned.) Christian Cooper says, "Okay, if you're going to do what you want, then I'm going to do what I want, and you're not going to like it." That is a (vague) threat. He did not directly threaten her life or threaten to assault her, but he did threaten her.

I am 74 years old. I learned before I was twenty that Caucasians hate the dark color of my skin. It is an obsession that most never overcome. So very stoooopid

She was way too comfortable making that call to the police and lying, she’s obviously done this multiple times to get her way, someone should check her background and look into all her calls to police, s he should be charged for her false statements!

The GIVEAWAY was when she said, "I'm going to TELL THEM that there is an African American man threatening my life!" (That was a PURE THREAT by her. The 'TELL THEM' implies that she KNOWS he's not doing that, but THAT'S what she's going to 'TELL THEM'.) She didn't ask the guy WHY are you doing this, she went STRAIGHT to threatening him with the police. He was in no way a threat to her. She then lied while making a false report, acting distressed and hysterical to panic the responding officers. HAD the police arrived promptly there is a significant possibility Christian Cooper might have been shot. (Officers are trained to contain the threat FIRST and assess the situation LATER.) Amy Cooper should be CHARGED and JAILED for making a false report to police, reckless endangerment, animal cruelty AND running a dog in The Ramble off-leash. But she WON'T BE because she's a rich White lady. (IMAGINE if she was a screaming, hysterical BLACK lady making false accusations against a WHITE Harvard Grad Professional to Police officers?) She's a DISGRACE and if the city of NY don't CHARGE HER then so are they. ZERO TOLERANCE NOW for this ABSOLUTE RACISM! ENOUGH IS ENOUGH!!! xx SF

She has indeed been charged with a misdmeanor. She has also recently been charged with a second equally serious offense as it has been determined that she made a second 911 call that was not recorded on video.

It's not even 5 am in Australia and I'm here for it. Your a beacon of light Dr Grande 🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏✨💫✨

Thanks for bringing up her shift in tone of voice, I find it strange that most people are not commenting about how not only was she making threats, but as she was not only making these threats, but she was "acting" and changing her voice to make it sound like she was in distres and in increasing danger, and I think that speaks to her level of intent as well. She didn't just stand there and say in a bitchy tone that she was being threatened, she acted out a heightened levela of fear and made it sound like she was dealing with an increasingly aggressive *imminent threat.*

“Antisocial and narcissistic”. I suppose racist would fit into the antisocial aspect of this particular Karen. Thank you, Dr. Grande, for not only a great analysis of this, but also your straight-faced smiting humor. Nailed it.

What's the personality profile of a guy walking around with dog treats in his pocket, but no dog, who's threatening the dogs of women in the park, then recording their reactions so that he can become a famous victim?

It was my impression that when Mr. Cooper said "you will not like what I am going to do," that he was insinuating that he was going to do "something" unsavory to the dog. Granted, that she should have had the dog on a leash, and when asked to leave she should have... But, a woman facing a large man threatening (or insinuating) he is going to kill her dog, would be scary to most women irregardless of the race/ethnicity of the person making such a statement. So while Miss Cooper most certainly did over-react, so did society to her...

I think it's important to note that Amy did not just tell Christian "I'm going to call 911 and tell them an African American man is threatening me". She said "I'm going to call 911 and tell them an African American man is threatening *my life*."

Something tells me that she is not doing it for the first time . This time she got caught .

True Story. Last year I moved into a flat next door to a woman named Karen. I introduced myself and she told me she had just adopted two kittens (I like animals). Next time we spoke I said I had seen one of the kittens in her window and it was cute. Suddenly she asks "are you trying to poison my cats?" As you can imagine, I was very taken aback and said "of course not." She continued "someone is posting poisoned cat food through my door" and "I know my cats bother you" (I only saw one of them once and they are never let out and certainly make no noise). Instantly I replied "no they don't!" (bother me). As you can imagine, I now avoid this woman like a taste session at a Chinese wet market situated next to a biolab. Do you think that she is suffering from catatonia? ;-) p.s It really is a true story and her name is actually Karen but I couldn't resist the pun.

I love that Dr. Grande's video is the third one from the top on KZfaq when you search for "Amy Cooper." You're goin' places Doc! :)

Imagine how Emmitt Till’s mother felt and so many other MOTHERS.

*KAREN* Knew she could use the police as a weapon against an innocent man, she called the cops to make a false report and dramatized the situation by choking her dog, am glad she was fired.

I hate the “Karen” label… this is a hijack of a perfectly beautiful name to make it seem mean

Yes, phycology, when a person states premeditated intent; It shows there is an understanding of social perception and cause and effect.

For me,the situation altered radically when her voice changed and she began to hysterically claim she was been attacked by an "African-American man" (gotta be PC). At that point, the police would have thought she was being physically or sexually assaulted (which has happened in Central Park) and would have arrived not only with "heightened awareness" but most probably guns drawn. Mr Cooper would have been man-handled, at the least, and possibly dead. She is the epitome of a Karen...and hopefully everyone recognizes how dangerous they can be.

She didn’t feel the need to adjust her behavior, even tho she was being filmed, bc time and time again we’ve been shown that even when Black people getting wrongly treated is captured on camera, it doesn’t matter. There’s always a potential reason for guilt when it comes to black people even when there’s no evidence to suggest it

Another great video Dr Grande. Whilst I don't disagree with your analysis of Amy Cooper, I do find that in a lot of these 'Karen' videos they are reacting badly to being filmed. I must admit, never in my life during an altercation with somebody have I ever thought to get out my phone to record the person and then to distribute it onto the internet. This does seem to me be an incredibly passive aggressive act, a kind of, 'I am going to involve the world in this trivial dispute and make you look bad to everybody' which to me seems like a narcisstic thing to do in itself. Do you have any thoughts on the mindset of Mr Cooper and if those who record altercations with the intent to put it online to expose somebody are not themselves behaving badly? You say that he did nothing wrong, but I can't help but feel that he acted like a bit of a dick himelf in antagonising the woman and then exposing her to the world. Not justifying her behaviour, or that of other Karens, but the internet is awash with these kinds of 'justice/vindication' type videos where people are savagely condemned for their behaviour, but little thought is given to the fact that they were responding to somebody sticking a camera in their face to record them, which is in my opinion at least an extremely antagonising and anti social thing to do.

Somehow this incident happened in a moment when we needed to confront racism more seriously and take action, I’m disappointed New York police isn’t interested in this case anymore. I’m very late watching this video, but thanks Dr Grande ☺️

Dr Grande out here playing the KZfaq algorithm game and killin’ it

I feel a civil lawsuit for reporting false and misleading information is in order...sue the hell outta her.

Thank You for the personality profile on a Karen. ❤️ It's a bit concerning though the increasing number of 'female Karens' (haven't come across a male one yet).

unfortunately in this case, Dr. Grande is missing significant details in this story that preceded the video footage, so his analysis is off the mark, in my opinion. For those interested in a more complete and complex picture of the incident, watch journalist, Bari Weiss's Chanel Honestly, episodes, Context in the Case of the Central Park Karen and What Happened to Amy Cooper After She Went Viral.

Never expected to see a "scientifically informed insider look at the personality and behaviour of a Karen" at any point in time but here we are lmfao

She has REAL problems. And thinks she alone can break the rules.

Thank you for explaining the (for a lack of a better term on my part) logic behind Karen's. I usually use the phrase "fine" F'ed up, Insecure, Neurotic and Emotional. So to me Karen's are really just fine.

A judge just dismissed Amy Cooper of all charges. And, have ordered for her records of the incident cleared. FYI

She’s so afraid of him..yet SHE approaches HIM. Sure Karen

So, basically what you’re saying is, Amy Cooper is highly “Karenistic?”

"If you're going to do what you want, I'm going to do what I want, but you're not going to like it." - Christian Cooper before recording

Did He really just use psychology to analyze and troll Karens as a personality disorder? LOL loving this!!

I'm in retail so I have to interact with these Karen's a lot, in their natural habitats. I've noticed Karen's are in their worst form while part of a pack. They fuel each other's sense of entitlement, and feel more powerful. Two of them attempted to humiliate me during my shift yesterday. I was so upset my hands were shaking, I hate when my emotions are visible like that.

She has to be one of the karenest Karens to ever karen...

UPDATE: the guy has now publicly stated he made up the story and deliberately antagonised and threatened her even trying to steal her dog. I suspected this from the beginning. The whole “birdwatching” story was clearly a load of trash. Moral the story including for “Dr” Grande here. Make sure you know all the facts before passing judgement. This video didn’t age well 🤣🤣🤣

Dr. Grande name shaming? The name Karen should no longer be used. A behavior can be labeled with millions of adjectives other than someone's name. If you suddenly had your name represent everything that is wrong in this world, how would you feel? Would you like to feel embarrassed to tell someone your name? Be aware that Karen-isms can cause more than just irritation; they can be harmful. Stereotyping is never fair, kind, or just - it's always unjust. It is very unfair to the innocent and uninvolved individuals named Karen. Karen

The whole thing would have been avoided if the man had his manager there that she could talk to.

She didnt restrain herself bc she didn't feel the need to. That's how much she was confident of her whiteness and that it would work out in her favor

To all americans, please remember this: In Denmark Karen is a perfectly normal and common girl's name with NO stereotypes attached to it. We don't expect americans to care though...

If you know you're doing something wrong in a public area, and someone points it out, just turn around and do the right thing. There will never be a problem if everyone respects eachother.

They are just nasty, selfish, entitled people. They must be so miserable. I know I’m miserable when around them.

The way she redirected her emotion from her dog struggling because she was choking it into her voice to add authenticity to her feigned distress to get the police to arrive in an agitated state went a long way towards showing what kind of person she is. She would have used anything she could no matter who got hurt to get back at that man for daring to make her follow the rules.

Hi Dr ! We don t know what happ before Mr Cooper started the video, what was the verbal exchange and so on. His act of starting the video could be regarded as challenging. Her act could be a heightened response in the given circumstances. I don t want to find excuses for Ms Cooper, but what if she really got scared and exhibited a fight or flight behaviour ? She clearly lost awareness of the situation when she was chocking the puppy.

Firstly I am so happy to hear the dog was given back to a shelter an hope it was adopted by sweet and kind people. I remember seeing this as soon as it was posted and was so upset by it. Her being so hateful and racist is not uncommon unfortunately.

“Karen” didn’t feel threatened, she just didn’t want him saying anything to her, and decided to use her “privilege” on some type of, oh I know how to handle this ninja....

She has been charged now with filling a false report

I think that the situation happened because one Karen ran into another Karen. They were both being Karens she was just a nastier one I mean the man took out his phone and started recording her. After he told her what she needed to know he should have just walked away and minded his own business instead he had to start something.

Mr. Cooper handled himself well. During and after. One note: people who do not leash their dogs in areas where it's required do quite often become angry and defensive when asked to leash the animal. It's a strange phenomenon. Pretty much predictable.

She almost strangled her poor dog. She clearly doesn't like to be told what to do. Entitled.

One good thing came out of this. The poor dog is not in her care anymore.

People this psychotic should never be allowed near animals, much less have a pet.

But that sounds like a threat to me: "If you are gonna do what you want. I am gonna do what I want... and you're not gonna like it."

I agree, she should be prosecuted, people need to realize that there are severe consequences for calling the police on blacks when they are doing normal natural things.

Last person I thought you’d do a video on, but truthfully, first type of person I want to see a video on! 😆 excellent analysis! 💖

"What if": he didn't have his phone with him! The over the top reaction and the me, myself and I attitude of these "Karen's" are 2 strong indicators of a narcissistic personality.

Mob mentality is so dangerous... By the time we realize what really happened, what the context was, why Christian had a bag of treats, what Christian was known for at that area, Christian activism on the off leash canine issue prior to this encounter.. Amy was cancelled and sentenced without chance of parole, lost her job, she's gone underground... Alone in a park, then a big guy tells you: Look, if you’re going to do what you want, I’m going to do what I want, but you’re not going to like it... She said terrible things, yet, it was presented and adopted with a consistent lack of context.

Holy shit, I dated a Karen. The lack of reason and self control was astounding, she was also abusive af

Appreciate this video. This is something POC have dealt with almost daily, taking a walk, in a store, and especially in the workplace. There are Male versions of Amy as well who use or wield their power without provocation or justification. It usually ends in the person who is being wronged, being punished. Sad but true. Appreciate you, Dr Grande.

I don't know how the nickname "Karen" came to be associated with poorly behaving women. My wife is actually named Karen, and I also know another person named Karen, and this nickname really disparages their good name and nature!

When people make decisions about 40 second videos, it says so much about our sad and negative traits..