He explained that “the idea of waiting to shoot it with a hypodermic would not have been a good idea,” adding that even an anesthetic would have yielded a delayed response. “The risk was due to the power of that animal,” he said of the 420-pound gorilla.
People on social media have taken to throw critics at the zoo and the boy’s parents using #JusticeForHarambe. Some protest the decision to kill Harambe and question how the parents lost track of their child.
