If you haven't heard, there was a gorilla at the Cincinnati Zoo, named Harambe, that was put down.
Just recently, a 3-year-old child had pestered his parents about climbing into the gorilla enclosure. When they had not listened to him, the child went into the pen and "visited" the gorillas up close.
Harambe, a 17-year-old silverback gorilla, went over to the child and held his hand. He was dragging the child to get him out of the cage and back to his parents (as distinguished by famous primatologist Jane Goodall). The zookeepers mistook it as him trying to kill the child and shot him instead.
Speculation has been going around whether or not it was a good thing that Harambe was killed, but people like famous zookeeper Jack Hanna have agreed that it was the best solution at the time. People have stated that if Harambe was sedated, the "non-lethal solutions" would not have started kicking in in time.
On the other hand, there are pages like Justice for Harambe on change.org that are organizing petitions to recognize the innocence of Harambe. These groups have come forward with research about the family supporting the claims that they are as negligent as the supporters make them out to be.
More recently, the director of the Cincinnati Zoo has received an email from Jane Goodall. She apologized for the loss of the gorilla and how hard they must be taking it. Goodall also had stated that Harambe was not pushing the child around (that you could see him holding the child's hand), but she did not state whether or not she agreed to the actions the zoo took.
