White woman who accused Black man in New York's Central Park charged with false police report

New York prosecutors have charged a white woman who in May accused a Black man of threatening her life in New York’s Central Park with filing a false police report, Manhattan’s district attorney said on Monday.

The district attorney Cy Vance said Amy Cooper, 41, faces an Oct. 14 arraignment over the incident, which was captured on a video that went viral and touched off a national conversation about “white privilege.”