Gorilla Shot Dead at Cincinnati Zoo After Child Climbs in Enclosure

[PepsiFree]

I'd kill every Gorilla on the planet. Just give me a knife, a watch, and an opportunity.

[Minnie]

NSFW!

[CorsiHockeyLeague]

Originally Posted by CaptainCrunch

I'm sad that a gorilla died, its a tragedy, but for people to go on a all out war against the mother is stupid, its not like she hired a hunting team to stalk the gorilla and kill it so she can have its head on the wall and have sex with her husband in front of a roaring fire on its pelt.

This got distressingly specific.

[undercoverbrother]

Originally Posted by CaptainCrunch

Once again people behind the anonymity of the internet and social avengers have completely screwed up their interpretation of this and shifted blame to the mother.

People without kids and no clue screaming "What a horrible mother, boourn her"

Talking heads beaking away about the mothers failures to have her kid on a leash, while they bemoan their in home nanny service.

I'm sad that a gorilla died, its a tragedy, but for people to go on a all out war against the mother is stupid, its not like she hired a hunting team to stalk the gorilla and kill it so she can have its head on the wall and have sex with her husband in front of a roaring fire on its pelt.

[Mr.Coffee]

Originally Posted by Huntingwhale

A damn shame. Gorillas are way cooler then children.

Would you have shot the child instead and spared the gorilla?

[dino7c]

people are ####ing stupid and the zoo should be aware of that

[rbochan]

Originally Posted by Sainters7

...The "kids get away from parents all the time" excuse isn't going to get you off the hook with the manager at HBC if your kid runs off, jumps on a couch for sale and ends up breaking it, so I don't understand why it would in this situation..l.

It would show that HBC sells some pretty crappy couches.

[GGG]

The fence there is interesting as it is only designed to keep people out not animals in. The moat keeps the animals in.

So this is more like kid slips through deck railing and falls with bigger consequences.

I will say that I let my kids roam around at the zoo. Certainly out of arms reach and I certainly don't have eyes on them at all times. And they know to stay within the vicinity of the animal we are looking at. I have an expectation of the zoo to be reasonably child proof.

My kids are slightly older the youngest being five but letting your kids look an animals while not being on a leash is reasonable. I have also lost a kid at a stadium because the bathroom had two doors.

[troutman]

Panelist played the race card on CNN last night on Don Lemon show. Said if the parents were white they would not have been scrutinized as much as these parents. Is he right?

[Northendzone]

Originally Posted by PepsiFree

I'd kill every Gorilla on the planet. Just give me a knife, a watch, and an opportunity.

I'd be careful, as you will eventually succumb to the gorilla overlords and do their bidding in a few years and you will be screaming stop the planet of the apes I want to get off as we go from chimpan-a to chimpanzee......

[Teh_Bandwagoner]

Originally Posted by Mr.Coffee

Would you have shot the child instead and spared the gorilla?

[polak]

Originally Posted by troutman

Panelist played the race card on CNN last night on Don Lemon show. Said if the parents were white they would not have been scrutinized as much as these parents. Is he right?

I haven't seen the video but now that I know they're not white, I'm outraged!!!!!!!

[Playfair]

Originally Posted by polak

I haven't seen the video but now that I know they're not white, I'm outraged!!!!!!!

The gorilla was not white either!!!

[Thor]

I think it came out later that they were black, and now there is an ugly news report about the criminal background of the father, who wasn't even there!

Yup, totally no racism behind that crap.

[polak]

Originally Posted by Playfair

The gorilla was not white either!!!

What is this world coming to.

[Thor]

Here's a great FB post being shared today about this nonsense:

As you have likely heard, on this past Saturday a 4-year-old boy fell into the gorilla habitat at the Cincinnati Zoo. A gut-wrenching decision was made by the zoo to shoot and kill the gorilla to protect the boy and rescue him from the habitat.

The fallout over the incident has taken a decidedly racist turn as the public has now discovered that the boy and his parents are black.

Laura Collins, in Cincinnati writing for the Daily Mail, published an absolutely despicable piece on the young boy’s parents, including every detail of his father’s criminal history.

The actual lede and headline for her piece was all about how the young boy’s, Deonne Dickerson, had committed crimes before.

Buried deep in the story was the fact that he is gainfully employed and appeared to be a loving father from the myriad of photos found on him. The story, a hit job on Dickerson, has already been shared over 26,000 times on Facebook. Their tweet about his criminal history was one of their most popular of the day yesterday.

What Laura Collins and the Daily Mail fail to share is that it does not appear that the boy’s father was even at the zoo with his family on Saturday.

Why then mention him at all? Why name him? Why spell out every mistake this man has ever made if he wasn’t even at the zoo when this happened?

Even if he was there, do you sincerely think anyone would be talking about his criminal history if he was white? I don’t.

Last year, a child fell into the cheetah exhibit at the Cleveland Zoo. The child and his parents were never identified.

A leopard mauled a young child who scaled a fence at the Kansas Zoo. Not a single report mentioned the criminal history of anyone involved.

In 2014, two jaguars mauled a toddler who fell into the jaguar exhibit of the Little Rock Zoo. The child’s identity, the identity of his parents, and their criminal history was never mentioned.

Fifteen years ago a child fell into another gorilla exhibit and was rescued. The criminal history of the parents was never mentioned.

At the Pittsburgh Zoo, a child lunged from his mother’s arms into the African spotted dog exhibit and was mauled to death. The zoo actually settled a wrongful death suit with the family. I searched all morning to see if any media outlets mentioned the criminal history of the family. They didn’t.

A tiger at the San Francisco Zoo mauled a 17-year-old boy to death. A drunk family member was witnessed taunting the tiger beforehand. The zoo settled with the family. Again, not a single story was written on the criminal history of anybody in that young man’s family.

Did anyone in the media even think to search the criminal histories of these families? It sure doesn’t look like it and that’s a good thing. It’s irrelevant.

So why in the world is the criminal history of this young boy’s father in Cincinnati being spread all over the world other than the possibility that racists saw an opportunity to do what racists do? Even if the young boy’s father was there, is the suggestion that he had criminal intent by allowing his son, who he is shown doting on all over social media, fall through the enclosure?

People often ask why guys like me “make everything racial” as if we made the system this way. We didn’t. Race and racism are obviously deeply entrenched in this ugly world and stories like this are required to fight back against it.

This young family could’ve lost their son. They experienced the same type of accident that white families have experienced for decades, but instead of being shown mercy or compassion, they are now enduring unthinkable attacks on their character.

America. 2016.

http://www.nydailynews.com/news/nati...le-1.2655860?a

[CliffFletcher]

The parents were being attacked before people knew they were black. The fact some racists are now coming out of the woodwork does not mean the initial wave of criticism was about race.

This is why identity politics are so tiresome.

[Cecil Terwilliger]

Jesus, to top it off I read yesterday that the police are launching an investigation into the mother. I'm sure it's all just standard stuff, but the fact that there has been so much public outcry about this is depressing.

[Fighting Banana Slug]

Originally Posted by troutman

Panelist played the race card on CNN last night on Don Lemon show. Said if the parents were white they would not have been scrutinized as much as these parents. Is he right?

Nope. Had no idea until now. Mind you, I am not outraged of the parent's behavior.

[Oling_Roachinen]

Originally Posted by Thor

Here's a great FB post being shared today about this nonsense:

Had the child been killed instead of the gorilla the empathy for the parents and family involved would have been much different though.

You can't really compare the situations.