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RFK Jr. Admits to Dumping Dead Six-Month-Old Female Black Bear Cub in Central Park with Bicycle

Aug 5, 2024, 11:39 AM

Independent presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has admitted to a decade-old incident involving a dead six-month-old female black bear cub in New York City's Central Park. In a video posted online, Kennedy confessed to placing the carcass in the park in 2014 to make it appear as though the bear had been struck by a bicyclist. The bizarre revelation came ahead of a forthcoming New Yorker article detailing the incident. Kennedy explained that the bear had been killed by a motorist in Hudson Valley, and he initially planned to skin it for meat but later abandoned the idea. Instead, he staged the scene as a prank. The video, featuring Roseanne Barr, was released to preempt the impact of the New Yorker story. The incident has sparked widespread media coverage and public reaction, including a photo of Kennedy with the bear.