After the shooting of the gorilla at the Cincinnati Zoo, many zoo-goers said that the animal had treated the child gently, but others saw a different picture.
Some witnesses said that the crowd reactions to the fall of the 4-year old boy into the enclosure had worsened the situation, and that in the end there was no chance to safely retrieve him from the gorilla.
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At first, the gorilla had appeared to be protecting the boy, but then the screams of the crowd had alarmed the animal.
“He dragged the child a little further down into the moat and he … almost looked like he was helping him, pulled his pants up, stood him up, and then all of the sudden everybody started screaming again, and he pulled him completely out, ” Kimberley O’Connor told CNN.
Read the full story at The Epoch Times by Jonathan Zhou
