[Roguish Lawyer]

Originally posted by Farmer40
They are vegetarians. He (the gorilla) didn't eat anybody, he just tasted a few folks.

News reports here in Dallas state that the tranquilizer guns were deployed. The area of the zoo where the animal was loose is heavily wooded resembling a central African environment. Visibility is extremely limited. There were still zoo visitors in the area. The gorilla apparently came out of the bushes where there were two police officers instead of the zoo marksmen. Then he inconsiderately charged those two. The proper protocol for dealing with a loose three hundred pound gorilla charging you in close quarters is to shoot it with whatever you have. Sound logical to me.

The designated emergency response team (zoo employees) does train with the Dallas PD on the emergency procedures for dangerous animals loose in the zoo. This includes range firing.

So this wasn't a wanton killing of a poor defenseless animal by cops out of control.
It was the unfortunate (for the gorilla especially) end of a planned response to an anticipated emergency. A well executed contingency plan.

Good to hear.