What happened with RFK Jr. and the bear cub in Central Park?

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is elevating eyebrows after saying in a video he as soon as left a lifeless bear cub in New York Metropolis’s Central Park.

In a video posted Aug. 4 on Kennedy’s official, the 70-year-old impartial presidential candidate tells comic Roseanne Barr that he and his buddies left the lifeless cub’s corpse within the park as a result of they thought it could be “amusing.”

Learn on to find out about Kennedy mentioned concerning the lifeless bear he left in Central Park, and why he publicly shared the information. NBC Information reached out to Kennedy’s marketing campaign on Aug. 4 and didn’t hear again.

How did Robert F. Kennedy find yourself with a bear cub?

In his video, Kennedy says he was in Goshen, New York, about an hour and a half outdoors of New York, to take a gaggle of individuals falconing.

Early that day, he watched a van in entrance of him strike and kill a child bear whereas he was driving close to

“So I pulled over and I picked up the bear and put him at the back of my van as a result of I used to be going to pores and skin the bear, and it was excellent situation,” Kennedy says within the video. “I used to be going to place the meat in my fridge.”

With the bear at the back of his automotive, Kennedy went hawking. “We had a extremely good day so we stayed late,” he says within the video.

Because of this, was working delayed and, as a substitute of stopping at his home in Westchester, needed to go on to dinner at Peter Luger’s Steakhouse in Brooklyn.

How did the bear find yourself in Central Park?

When the dinner additionally ran late, the youthful Kennedy says he determined to not return to his dwelling. As a substitute, he deliberate to drive to an airport to catch a pre-scheduled flight.

“I didn’t need to go away the bear within the automotive as a result of that will have been dangerous,” he tells Barr.

Kennedy then schemed up a plan to discard the cub’s physique after remembering “a sequence of bicycle accidents” that had occurred in New York Metropolis at the moment.

“I wasn’t ingesting, after all, however individuals had been ingesting with me who thought this was a good suggestion. And I mentioned I had an outdated bike in my automotive that any individual requested me to eliminate. I mentioned, ‘Let’s go put the bear in Central Park, and we’ll make it appear like he obtained hit by a motorbike,’” Kennedy says, prompting Barr and others within the room, not seen on digicam, to chuckle.

“All people thought, ‘That’s an incredible thought!’” he says.

“We thought it could be amusing for whoever discovered it or one thing,” he provides.

Kennedy says he was nervous when officers launched an investigation concerning the crime scene, “as a result of my prints had been throughout that bike.”

The invention of the lifeless cub in Central Park was reported within the media in 2014

NBC affiliate reported in October 2014 {that a} lifeless black bear cub was present in Central Park.

Different New York-based media, together with additionally reported concerning the incident. The Occasions specified that the cub, whose mouth was splattered with blood, was a three-foot-long feminine, possible born the identical yr.

“It is a extremely uncommon state of affairs,” Elizabeth Kaledin, a spokeswoman for the Central Park Conservancy, informed The Occasions. “It’s terrible.”

Kennedy determine to go public with the bear story after getting a name from the New Yorker

Kennedy, who married former “Curb Your Enthusiasm” star Cheryl Hines earlier that yr in 2014, then tells Barr that the incident initially acquired media consideration however “the story died after some time” and “stayed lifeless for a decade.”

That’s, till The New Yorker “came upon about it” and determined to report about it, he says. The publication, says Kennedy, had reality checkers attain out to him asking him to substantiate he was the one who left the lifeless cub within the park.

“It’s going to be a foul story,” Kennedy predicts within the video as individuals chuckle.

Kennedy captioned his video, “Trying ahead to seeing the way you spin this one, @NewYorker.”

A day later, The New Yorker shared particulars about how Kennedy and his buddies dumped a black bear cub’s “carcass” in Central Park in 2014.

The publication additionally revealed a photograph of Kennedy jokingly putting his hand within the lifeless cub’s mouth and grimacing.

In line with The New Yorker report, the lifeless cub was found the following day within the park by two girls strolling their canines. The New York Police Division subsequently launched an investigation.

Kennedy r.

“The press is usually known as the ‘fourth property,’ to emphasise its independence and excessive function,” he wrote. “However as of late it’s in eerie, virtually comical lockstep, amplifying trivial tales to break disfavored political figures.”

“In the meantime, mother and father in our nation can’t afford groceries,” he added. “Brothers gained’t converse to one another due to partisan loyalties. Small cities sink underneath habit and melancholy. And the world careens towards WW3. Let’s maintain our media to the next normal!”

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