10 years ago today, Harambe was shot and killed after grabbing a three-year-old boy in his enclosure at the Cincinnati Zoo and Botanical Garden.
https://web.archive.org/web/20170624080451/https://www.nytimes.com/2016/05/30/us/gorilla-killed-after-child-enters-enclosure-at-cincinnati-zoo.html
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MushuChupacabra@piefed.world · 20 pts · 109d
10 years ago today, Harambe was shot and killed because a three year old's guardians were negligent in his enclosure at the Cincinnati Zoo and Botanical Garden.
vrek@programming.dev · 16 pts · 110d
All rise and take your dicks out in honor...
Frozengyro@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 109d
You imply I've dishonored him by putting it away
vrek@programming.dev · 2 pts · 109d
Well ... Sunday dinner at your mother's was probably awkward then ....
neidu3@sh.itjust.works · 5 pts · 109d
Nah, his mom is a believer in Tits Out for Harambe
CIA_chatbot@lemmy.world · 9 pts · 109d
And this dooming the timeline to the current fucking shithole it is today
homesweethomeMrL@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 110d
Protecting the boy. Panicking idiot cop lost his shit and killed him before anything else.
What the fuck is this headline, anyway? The boy fell in?!!
crimeschneck@sopuli.xyz · 6 pts · 109d
It was a zoo worker.
It's from Wikipedia.
homesweethomeMrL@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 109d
My mistake, it was a zoo worker. I guess since the Fire Department was there (coincidentally, as it happened) I assumed they called the police as well.
The story as recounted here (with weirdly unrelated pic) and the wiki referenced articles make it clear the zoo director called for killing Harambe rather than risk him accidentally killing a child he was almost certainly protecting. I’m sure a crowd of yelling people helped no one.
Is it certain? Nothing is certain. It’s still insurance money versus nature, that was the calculus.