Zimbabwe: Minnesota Man Being Sought For Lion Poaching

[Kablooie]

Source: CBS Minnesota

HARARE, Zimbabwe (AP) — Zimbabwean police said Tuesday they are searching for an American who allegedly shot a well-known, protected lion with a crossbow in a killing that has outraged conservationists and others.

The American allegedly paid $50,000 to kill the lion named Cecil, Zimbabwean conservationists said. Authorities on Tuesday said two Zimbabwean men will appear in court for allegedly helping with the hunt.

Walter James Palmer was identified on Tuesday by both the Zimbabwe Conservation Task Force and the Safari Operators Association of Zimbabwe as the American hunter, which police then confirmed.

The American faces poaching charges, according to police spokeswoman Charity Charamba.

Read more: http://minnesota.cbslocal.com/2015/07/28/bloomington-man-accused-of-killing-beloved-lion-in-zimbabwe/

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And it looks like the US has an extradition treaty with Zimbabwe so this Minnesotan dentist may find himself in a Zimbabwe jail before long. I hope the sentence is long and horrible for him.

Here is a thread with more info on Walter James Palmer

http://www.democraticunderground.com/10027017773

[Coventina]

1. Awesome!! May he rot in a third world prison for a long, long time!!!!

[hlthe2b]

2. Throw the book at him and make him an example for this horrid trade in narcissism & death

[jwirr]

3. I hope he gets extradited but we will need to bring pressure because money talks.

[Paladin]

4. Take him, Zimbabwe---we don't want him. (nt)

[swilton]

5. It Won't Bring the Lion Back

and this kind of thing will become more secretive as it goes further underground....

I wish there was a way to teach people to cherish rather than destroy the planet.

[Coventina]

6. It may discourage rich jerks from participating in this atrocity if they see it can ruin their lives

Letting them get away with it is NOT an option.

[ToxMarz]

29. And letting them get away with it

Certainly won't teach these people to cherish rather than destroy the planet.

[alcibiades_mystery]

40. Amazing how people believe in deterrence for poor black kids but not rich white dudes

Shaking my damn head.

[Coventina]

43. No kidding. There is really NO overlap between the motivations of the two groups.

One group turns to crime due to lack of options.

The other out of a sense of entitlement.

It makes me sick when people can't see the difference.

[BainsBane]

7. His Dental website is down

I bet he was getting tons of blow back. What a POS.

[Coventina]

14. That's not his real page. It's a page someone made to mock him.

Still, glad to see him taking heat!

[cynzke]

16. You beat My Self-Delete. I was on the page this morning.

[Coventina]

20. No worries! I've been taken in by that sort of thing.

It happens to us all at one time or another....

[mnhtnbb]

25. Really. His fb practice page is down, too.

Yelp link to e-mail him doesn't work.

I bet the office workers are scurrying to look for new jobs. This guy is in big trouble.

[Bosonic]

8. Just in case he wasn't unpopular enough

[ToxMarz]

30. Putin wannabe

[840high]

9. POS.

[bluestateguy]

10. That is not a country where you want to be in trouble

Mugabe is not a nice person.

[Coventina]

11. Match made in heaven, then....

They should get along just great!!

[Auggie]

12. I hope our officials are helping to find Palmer. Let's get this fucker.

[Angry Dragon]

15. I favor an eye for an eye

[mnhtnbb]

24. Really. Let him be the object of a Hunger Games hunt.

[bigworld]

17. Here's the text of the extradition treaty

https://www.congress.gov/105/cdoc/tdoc33/CDOC-105tdoc33.pdf

What are the chances that he'd be extradited?

[tblue37]

18. This article shows pics of the animals he has killed, including a leopard,

an endangered white rhino. The killing club he belongs to has a list of animals their members should check off as they kill them--including polar bears and others that are at risk of extinction. He was actually caught lying to game officers after killing a ebar in a place where he should not have done so.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/africaandindianocean/zimbabwe/11767119/Cecil-the-lions-killer-revealed-as-American-dentist.html

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The father of two had, according to the paper, killed all but one of the animals listed in records produced by bow hunting group Pope and Young. The animals on the list include polar bears, bison, grizzly bears and cougars.

"Of course, it is a personal achievement to harvest any big-game animal with a bow and arrow," said Glen Hisey, the curator of the Pope and Young records programme. "It is a way of honouring that animal for all time."

Mr Palmer has also run into legal woes. In 2008, court records show, he pleaded guilty to making a false statement to federal wildlife officials concerning the exact location of the slaying of a black bear during a guided hunt in Wisconsin. He was sentenced to a year probation.

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ON EDIT: I hope his dental practice ends up failing over this so that he won't be ale to afford any more killing expeditions!

[Coventina]

21. "It is a way of honouring that animal for all time." Are they kidding?!?!?!?

What a completely messed-up head space these people live in!

It is seriously a mental illness.

[packman]

32. "Way of honouring" What crap

Try taking a photo or better yet, strip down to a knife and hunt your "honour" that way. What a POS for a human. I think such things should be considered Acts against Humanity because they remove something from nature that should be preserved for all, not just the privileged few .

[okasha]

41. That first picture is a jaguar.

May this .murderer in his turn be "honored for all time."

[bbgrunt]

19. no words. k and r

[world wide wally]

22. Extradite the asshole

[mnhtnbb]

23. I hope the guy rots in a Zimbabwe jail.

[carla]

26. I would volunteer

to hunt him down with a bow and arrow. I will hang his head above my toilet so I can shit under his nose.

[mnhtnbb]

27. oh, my.

We lived next door to a guy like this in Lincoln, NE. He built a new house--out in the country--and invited
everyone for a cocktail party. I was horrified when we went and discovered there were heads--trophies--
of all kinds of animals displayed all over the house. I was literally sick to my stomach and told my husband
we had to leave.

What kind of a sick fuck does this sort of thing? Haven't they ever heard of cameras?

[Orrex]

28. He was probably poisoned by decades of evil dental amalgam

K/R. Send the asshole to Zimbabwe!

[restorefreedom]

31. extradite his sorry ass

sick fuck.

[Earth_First]

33. Exdradite this piece of sh*t...

Justice in the form of taking him out into the park, handcuffed behind his back.

Kick his ass off the back of the truck, administer a gunshot to each kneecap and let nature handle it overnight...

[Spitfire of ATJ]

34. "Charity Charamba"???

[Judi Lynn]

35. Man accused in African lion death thought hunt was legal

Man accused in African lion death thought hunt was legal

Brian Bakst and Amy Forliti, Associated Press
Updated 5:56 pm, Tuesday, July 28, 2015

. . .

The lion's death has outraged animal conservationists and others, including U.S. Rep. Betty McCollum, a Minnesota Democrat. In a statement late Tuesday, the congresswoman called for an investigation by the U.S. Attorney's Office and the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service to see whether any U.S. laws were violated.

. . .

According to U.S. court records, Palmer pleaded guilty in 2008 to making false statements to the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service about a black bear he fatally shot in western Wisconsin. Palmer had a permit to hunt but shot the animal outside the authorized zone in 2006, then tried to pass it off as being killed elsewhere, according to court documents. He was given one year probation and fined nearly $3,000.

. . .

A Facebook page for Palmer's Minnesota dental practice was taken offline Tuesday after users flooded it with comments condemning Palmer's involvement in the hunt. Hundreds of similar comments inundated a page for his dental practice on the review platform Yelp, which prior to Tuesday had only three comments.

Palmer is properly licensed and able to practice in the state, according to the Minnesota Board of Dentistry. Board records show that Palmer was the subject of a sexual harassment complaint settled in 2006, with Palmer admitting no wrongdoing and agreeing to pay a former receptionist more than $127,000.

More:
http://www.chron.com/news/science/article/Man-accused-in-African-lion-death-convicted-in-6410180.php

[City Lights]

39. He's a liar and a scum bag. nt

[peacebird]

46. So his tiny little itty bitty manliness also paid out to settle a sexual harrassment case...

Clearly he has issues with his 'manhood'....

[roomtomove]

36. Low Life Excuse for a Person

This was a pathetic desecration of a beautiful animal. I hope he will be in prison for a long, long time.

[question everything]

37. Here is what else is known

Palmer pleaded guilty to federal charges in 2008 related to the poaching of a black bear in Wisconsin two years earlier. Palmer and others transported the bear, which was killed 40 miles outside of a legal hunting zone, to a registration station inside the legal area. Palmer was sentenced to one year of probation and fined nearly $3,000.

In the spring of 2003, Palmer was convicted in Otter Tail County in western Minnesota and paid a small fine for fishing without a license, a misdemeanor.

Palmer is listed as a member of the trophy hunting organization Safari Club International. His profile on SCI’s website lists 43 kills, including caribou, moose, deer, buffalo, a polar bear and mountain lion.

In 2009, Palmer agreed to a settlement with the Minnesota Board of Dentistry over allegations that he sexually harassed a receptionist. She alleged that Palmer made comments about her breasts, buttocks and genitalia. Without admitting guilt, Palmer settled and paid $127,500 to the woman, who also was his patient. The settlement included references to his bear-hunting conviction and “substandard record keeping.”

http://www.startribune.com/what-we-know-about-minnesota-dentist-walter-palmer/318943371/

[City Lights]

38. He's all yours, Zimbabwe! Do with him what you will. nt

[ladywnch]

42. even sadder; an additional 24 lions are likely to die due to this atrocity

according to conservationists, Cecil had 24 cubs which will likely be killed now because he is not there to protect them and rival males will kill off all his offspring........it's the natural order. So this jack-off actually killed 25 lions in one fell swoop.......what a way to 'honor' them. I wonder how 'honored' he'd feel if he were skinned, beheaded and hung on someone's wall?

[bigworld]

44. Here's the White House petition to support his extradition

https://petitions.whitehouse.gov//petition/extradite-minnesotan-walter-james-palmer-face-justice-zimbabwe

I can't imagine he'd do well in a Zimbabwean prison.

[Sunlei]

45. The USA won't extradite the poacher. They don't even press charges against those who lure, run

off our Federally protected Wild Horses to outside land and 'poach' thousands to slaughter.

Our Gov even hired one who had federal charges against him and them kept him on as contractor & paid him & family millions in federal gov.contracts