People have a lot of angry thoughts about the gorilla who was killed after a child purposely fell into its pen at a zoo in Cincinnati.
They should have shot that kid's parents for being stupid and negligent, not the gorilla in his own cage.
— Swole University© (@SwoleUniversity) May 29, 2016
Here are the videos from an eyewitness who was there:
https://twitter.com/Amber_Soler/status/736785301079629825
https://twitter.com/Amber_Soler/status/736785945194729473
https://twitter.com/Amber_Soler/status/736801913094574080
There was a lot of “shouldn’ts” but few actually said they’d let the kid die to save the gorilla:
An animal shouldn't lose their life because the parents were too careless to watch their child. It's so upsetting, the gorilla was innocent.
— Brandon Evers (@BrandonEvrs) May 29, 2016
Yeah that’s fine, but that’s not the difficult decision that was made.
Instead of killin the Gorilla, they should've shot the trash ass parents. Anyway, fuck the zoo.
— 5'9 & Blurple AF (@BlackSaiyan440) May 29, 2016
https://twitter.com/BlueMerman_/status/737004439945367553
And then there’s these people:
https://twitter.com/n_viii/status/736998224985104384
Honestly white people caring more about this gorilla then all the unarmed black people killed combined.
— Money team ™ (@Blvckmonk) May 29, 2016
https://twitter.com/NelsonEmpowered/status/736972912977190921
Except… the kid WAS black!! LOL! Idiots.
More from NBC News:
A 17-year-old gorilla was shot dead Saturday at the Cincinnati Zoo after it grabbed a child who had fallen into its enclosure, officials said.
The 4-year-old boy climbed under a railing and through wires before falling about 10 feet into the Gorilla World exhibit at about 4 p.m., said Cincinnati Zoo director Thayne Maynard.
First responders “witnessed a gorilla who was violently dragging and throwing the child,” Cincinnati Fire Department Chief Marc Monahan wrote in a statement.
Once “the threat from the gorilla was neutralized by a Cincinnati Zoo employee with one shot from a long rifle,” the child was retrieved and brought to Cincinnati Children’s Hospital with serious injuries, the statement said.
The child, who has not been identified, remained conscious during the entire incident, which lasted more than 10 minutes, the statement said. The Associated Press reported that he was expected to recover.
The gorilla that was killed was a 400 pound male Western lowland silverback named Harambe, Maynard said. Western lowland silverback gorillas are considered critically endangered, according to the World Wildlife Fund.
Maynard said the gorilla didn’t appear to be attacking the child, but he said it was “an extremely strong” animal in an agitated situation. He said the gorilla wasn’t tranquilized because in such a large animal it would take several minutes for the tranquilizer to take effect.
“The zoo’s in the business of taking care of endangered animals, and we don’t want to be in the situation in which they have to be killed,” Maynard said. “But all sorts of things could happen in a situation like that,” Maynard said during a news briefing, adding that “the right choice was made.”
I dunno. I’ve visited Cincinnati. That gorilla ain’t missin’ much.