Robert F. Kennedy Jr. just isn’t on police radar in New York for dumping a useless bear in Central Park a decade in the past … TMZ has discovered.
NYPD sources inform TMZ they are not investigating the impartial presidential candidate. We additionally checked with the New York State Division of Environmental Conservation, and RFK Jr.’s within the clear there as properly.
New Yorker’s @ClareMalone obtained a photograph of RFK and the useless bear cub pic.twitter.com/UGGp70walH
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NYSDEC mentioned they carried out a 2014 investigation into the Central Park bear cub’s dying, concluding the bear died from blunt-force trauma in line with a high-speed collision. On account of an absence of proof, they closed the probe later that 12 months with out issuing any citations.
Now, NYSDEC has the facility to subject citations for the unlawful disposal of a bear — violators may be fined $250. Factor is … there is a one-year statute of limitations on this offense, so RFK Jr. is method within the clear.
This comes a day after Kennedy owned as much as the entire bear-in-the-park stunt that had locals scratching their heads for 10 years. RFK Jr. recounted the story in an obvious try and get forward of a narrative by The New Yorker … which is now out and encompasses a pic of RFK Jr. with the useless cub.
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RFK posted a video on X … saying he was driving throughout a looking journey along with his falcon when a girl in entrance of him struck and killed a bear. Within the video, he is relaying the story to actor Roseanne Barr.
He grabbed the bear off the highway as a result of he says he didn’t need to let the meat go to waste … however he received caught up with different stuff and by no means made it dwelling to refrigerate the animal, so he simply determined to dump it in Central Park.
RFK Jr. mentioned, again then, there had been a bunch of pedestrians getting hit by cyclists within the park … so he and his buddies thought it could be humorous to pin the bear’s dying on a motorcycle rider.
In fact, nobody thought it was humorous, and the NYPD’s Animal Cruelty Investigation Squad confirmed up in Central Park to determine what occurred. However, the investigation misplaced steam, and Kennedy says no person received in contact with him till The New Yorker started piecing all of it collectively.
