
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. isn’t on police radar in New York for dumping a dull bear in Central Park a decade prior to now … TMZ has realized.
NYPD sources inform TMZ they don’t appear to be investigating the neutral presidential candidate. We moreover checked with the New York State Division of Environmental Conservation, and RFK Jr.’s inside the clear there as correctly.
New Yorker’s @ClareMalone obtained {a photograph} of RFK and the lifeless bear cub pic.twitter.com/UGGp70walH
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NYSDEC acknowledged they carried out a 2014 investigation into the Central Park bear cub’s dying, concluding the bear died from blunt-force trauma consistent with a high-speed collision. Ensuing from an absence of proof, they closed the probe later that 12 months with out issuing any citations.
Now, NYSDEC has the ability to problem citations for the illegal disposal of a bear — violators will likely be fined $250. Issue is … there’s a one-year statute of limitations on this offense, so RFK Jr. is method inside the clear.
This comes a day after Kennedy owned as a lot as your complete bear-in-the-park stunt that had locals scratching their heads for 10 years. RFK Jr. recounted the story in an apparent attempt to get ahead of a story by The New Yorker … which is now out and features a pic of RFK Jr. with the lifeless cub.
8/4/24
RFK posted a video on X … saying he was driving all through a wanting journey collectively together with his falcon when a woman in entrance of him struck and killed a bear. Throughout the video, he’s relaying the story to actor Roseanne Barr.
He grabbed the bear off the freeway because of he says he didn’t want to let the meat go to waste … nonetheless he purchased caught up with totally different stuff and on no account made it home to refrigerate the animal, so he merely decided to dump it in Central Park.
RFK Jr. acknowledged, once more then, there had been a bunch of pedestrians getting hit by cyclists inside the park … so he and his associates thought it will likely be humorous to pin the bear’s dying on a motorcycle rider.
In truth, no one thought it was humorous, and the NYPD’s Animal Cruelty Investigation Squad confirmed up in Central Park to find out what occurred. Nonetheless, the investigation misplaced steam, and Kennedy says nobody purchased involved with him until The New Yorker began piecing all of it collectively.