Ricky Gervais Criticizes Cincinnati Gorilla Shooting

Celebrity and comedian Ricky Gervais has joined in the thong of criticism directed the Cincinatti zoo, which killed a silverback gorilla to save a boy who had fell into the animal’s enclosure.

Eula Ray, of Hamilton, whose son is a curator for the zoo, touches a sympathy card beside a gorilla statue outside the Gorilla World exhibit at the Cincinnati Zoo & Botanical Garden, Sunday, May 29, 2016, in Cincinnati. On Saturday, a special zoo response team shot and killed Harambe, a 17-year-old gorilla, that grabbed and dragged a 4-year-old boy who fell into the gorilla exhibit moat. AP Photo/John Minchillo

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