Zimbabwea will not prosecute shooter of Cecil the Lion

[tyroneweaver]

Zimbabwe says will not charge U.S. dentist for killing Cecil the lion

Agree on this for a number of reasons.

 

[Iron Head]

Good. The idea of the dude being extradited and prosecuted was pretty fucked up.

I wonder if he has been able to recover Cecil's head yet? After spending all of the money necessary to get there for the hunt, putting up with the phony PC fueled outrage over Cecil, and losing business of the hunt, I hope the dentist at least gets to recover Cecil's head so he can enjoy the mount. I'd put it right in his office, in his patient waiting room, if I were him.

 

[TheOldSchool]

Good. The idea of the dude being extradited and prosecuted was pretty fucked up.

I wonder if he has been able to recover Cecil's head yet? After spending all of the money necessary to get there for the hunt, putting up with the phony PC fueled outrage over Cecil, and losing business of the hunt, I hope the dentist at least gets to recover Cecil's head so he can enjoy the mount. I'd put it right in his office, in his patient waiting room, if I were him.

He will not get the head or pelt. They are in police custody and will eventually be given to the park from which Cecil was lured.

Even though the dentist is an asshole for killing endangered species, it's a good thing he was not extradited. We don't want to set the precedent of sending our citizens to be tried unfairly in the 3rd world.

 

[waltky]

Charges dropped against Walter Palmer for shooting Cecil the lion...

Zimbabwe court drops charges against hunter who helped kill Cecil the lion
11 Nov 2016: A Zimbabwean court has thrown out charges against a local hunter accused of failing to stop the killing of the country's most prized lion by an American dentist, his lawyer said on Friday.

Walter Palmer, a lifelong big-game hunter from Minnesota, touched off a global controversy when he killed Cecil, a rare black-maned lion, with a bow and arrow outside Hwange National Park in western Zimbabwe in July last year. While Zimbabwean authorities said Palmer had legal authority to hunt, they were stung by the international outcry and charged local hunter Theo Bronkhorst, who assisted Palmer, with failing to prevent an unlawful hunt.

Bronkhorst's lawyers then applied to the High Court in Zimbabwe's second city of Bulawayo to set aside the charge, arguing it could not have been an offence under the country's wildlife laws if Palmer had a permit to hunt. "The court granted us that prayer yesterday - that the charges be quashed. So I cannot imagine the state coming back again charging him with the same charge," said Lovemore Muvhiringi, a lawyer for Bronkhorst.

Cecil had been fitted with a collar to track his movements but strayed outside the confines of Hwange National Park and was then shot. Bronkhorst was accused of laying bait to lure Cecil out of the park. Palmer said at the time that no one in his hunting party realized the targeted lion was Cecil. Wildlife hunting is an important revenue source for the southern African country, which is grappling with its worst shortage of cash since it dumped its inflation-ravaged currency in favour of the U.S. dollar in 2009.

Conservationists worldwide were outraged when Zimbabwe's government announced in October last year that Palmer would not be charged over Cecil's killing because he had obtained legal authority to conduct the hunt. But the government said Palmer would be free to visit Zimbabwe only as a tourist, not a hunter, in future, implying he would not be issued the required permits.

Zimbabwe court drops charges against hunter who helped kill Cecil the lion

 

[Rustic]

Good. The idea of the dude being extradited and prosecuted was pretty fucked up.

I wonder if he has been able to recover Cecil's head yet? After spending all of the money necessary to get there for the hunt, putting up with the phony PC fueled outrage over Cecil, and losing business of the hunt, I hope the dentist at least gets to recover Cecil's head so he can enjoy the mount. I'd put it right in his office, in his patient waiting room, if I were him.

He will not get the head or pelt. They are in police custody and will eventually be given to the park from which Cecil was lured.

Even though the dentist is an asshole for killing endangered species, it's a good thing he was not extradited. We don't want to set the precedent of sending our citizens to be tried unfairly in the 3rd world.

Bleeding hearts will always make the wrong decision, it was a fucking lion who gives a fucking shit. They are put on this earth for us to harvest…

 

[LuckyDuck]

Zimbabwe says will not charge U.S. dentist for killing Cecil the lion

Agree on this for a number of reasons.

Zimbabwe should just ensure that he is not allowed to enter its nation again.