Amy Cooper was fired from her job at an investment management company on Tuesday. After an internal review, Franklin Templeton said it "made the decision to terminate the employee involved, effective immediately." "We do not tolerate racism of any kind at Franklin Templeton," the company added.

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In the video, the dog’s owner, Amy Cooper (no relation to Christian and Melody) can be seen crowding Christian Cooper and pointing her finger in his face “Please don’t come close to me,” he asks and then backing away and calling the police, while her dog struggles in her hands. “I’m sorry, I’m in the Ramble, and there’s a man African-American, he has a bike helmet he is recording me and threatening me,” Amy told police, repeatedly emphasizing Christian Cooper’s race before shrieking again, more dramatically, that she was being threatened.

In a Facebook post, Abandoned Angels Cocker Spaniel Rescue, Inc. wrote that "the owner has voluntarily surrendered the dog in question to our rescue while this matter is being addressed." As for the man who filmed the woman, his sister said in a follow-up tweet that he is safe. The New York City Office of the Deputy Commissioner, Public Information issued a statement noting that "police were called to the Central Park Ramble for a report of an assault."

“Thank you,” Christian Cooper says when she finally clips the leash on her dog. The NYPD told CNN that when officers responded to the call, neither Amy Cooper nor Christian Cooper was there and that no arrests or summons were made. The clip sparked outrage online, with some drawing parallels between the woman’s false accusation that she was being threatened, and the recent killing of Ahmaud Arbery, a black man in Georgia who was pursued and murdered by several white men in February while out for a jog because the men claimed to suspect of committing burglaries in the area.

“When she says ‘I’m going to tell the cops an African American man is threatening my life,’ that’s a threat but also a confession,” wrote Democratic congressional candidate Qasim Rashid. “A confession that she’s well aware of America’s systemic racial injustices and she’s ready to weaponize them against him. That’s potentially lethal.”