Misplaced gorilla outrage? Donald Trump says zookeepers had no choice but kill the animal

Over the past few days, there has been much debate about whether security personnel from the Cincinnati Zoo made the right call when they shot dead a gorilla named Harambe after a three-year-old boy fell into its enclosure.

Some animal activists have demanded justice for the primate, arguing that the boy's parents were guilty of negligence for what happened. Even celebrities like rapper Ice-T criticised the zookeepers for killing the primate.

Various personalities, however, have taken the view that the outrage over Harambe's fatal shooting is misplaced.

Presumptive Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump, for instance, believes that the zoo personnel had no choice but to end the animal's life to save the boy.

The controversial business tycoon nevertheless recognised that the gorilla appeared motherly before it got shot dead.

"I think it's a very tough call," Trump said Tuesday during an event at the Trump Tower in New York. "It was amazing because there were moments with the gorilla, the way he held that child almost like a mother holding a baby. It looked so beautiful and calm," he said.

The presidential candidate added that authorities had to act fast because of the animal's unpredictability.

"They were moments where it looked pretty dangerous. I don't think they had a choice. I mean, probably, they didn't have a choice. You have a child, a young child is at stake. You know, it's too bad that there wasn't another way," Trump said, as quoted by WND.

"It just takes one second. One second. It's not like it takes place over well ... he's going to do it in 30 seconds from now. It just takes one little flick of his finger, and I will tell you, they probably had no choice," he added.

Pro-life commentator and talk show host Laura Ingraham, meanwhile, urged the public to channel its outrage towards Planned Parenthood, which she said ends more lives—human lives and not animal lives—compared to the zookeepers.

In the television show "Fox and Friends," Ingraham also called out Hollywood celebrities for lamenting the gorilla's death but staying silent on the killings of innocent babies done by Planned Parenthood.

"We have Hollywood celebrities who emit a collective yawn when we find out what really goes on in the 'abortuaries' across this country, Planned Parenthood clinics, other abortion clinics," Ingraham said, as quoted by LifeSiteNews.

"The way women are routinely lied to. We have about a million babies a year who are not born. We sell off their body parts like it's nothing," she added.

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