😡 Killing a bear to spread hate! [View all]

Dead Bear on Sign in Great Smoky Mountains, Reward for Information

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Park officials at the Great Smoky Mountains National Park are offering a $5,000 reward for information relating to a dead black bear found on Saturday draped on the Foothills Parkway sign with the message “From Here to the Lake Black Lives Don’t Matter” also hanging on it.

Tourists found the black bear pelt with the skull inside on Saturday, hanging over an entrance sign on Highway 321 in Tennessee.

“We encourage anyone with information to reach out to us as we continue to investigate possible motives for this incident,” said Chief Ranger Lisa Hendy. “We take vandalism incidents seriously in the park, and this particular incident is particularly egregious. It is, for this reason, we are offering a reward for information.”

Former park ranger Warren Bielenger witnessed the situation on Saturday morning on his way to do a migratory bird count. He said the bear was “freshly killed”.

“The skull was still in it, and there was still fluid dripping off the backside of the skin,” Bielenger recalled.


https://outsider.com/outdoors/viral/dead-bear-draped-on-sign-in-great-smoky-mountains-national-park-reward-being-offered-for-information/


This makes me so goddamn fucking furious for so many reasons: the hate speech, the horrible cruelty, the fact that I adore bears, and that this sign is within a few miles of my future home.

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