What is going on here?! I don't care if they taunted the tiger. No one should be at risk of being chewed up by a tiger while at the zoo!
My friend, a former zoo employee, has first hand knowledge of the stupidity of the general public. Shoot, even I taunted the monkeys (or were they apes) while on an honor's field trip to the zoo in sixth grade, just because we heard that it would get them to throw shit at us. It worked.
I'm disgusted at how several media outlets report on their criminal record. Even if they beat up a cop in the past or smoked pot before they came into the zoo, they shouldn't get attacked by a tiger!
My hero, David Zirin, wrote about how the media were quick to criminalize Redskin Sean Taylor, saying he "had bad judgment."
How different would the coverage be if my group of honors students, comprised mostly of whites and East Asians, had been mauled instead of South Asians and a Latino?