The woman who made national headlines in May 2020 after calling 911 on a Black birdwatcher in Central Park filed a lawsuit Tuesday against her former employer, arguing that the investment firm’s actions contributed to the public perception that plaintiff Amy Cooper was “a privileged white female ‘Karen’ caught on video verbally abusing an African American male with no possible reason other than the color of his skin.”

Cooper alleged that Franklin Templeton defamed her, discriminated against her on the basis of her gender and race and intentionally inflicted emotional distress. The amount of the damages caused should be determined at trial, Cooper’s attorneys Andrea Maria Paparella and Matthew Litt wrote in the complaint, which was filed in the Southern District of New York and surfaced by Law.com Radar.