Robert F. Kennedy Jr., who is running for president as an independent, said he once scooped a dead bear off the side of the road and dumped the carcass in New York City’s Central Park.
In a video released on Kennedy’s social media account, the candidate is seen telling actress Roseanne Barr of a time roughly a decade ago when he retrieved a dead bear from the side of the road after it was fatally struck by another driver. Kennedy said after an initial flood of media coverage around the dead bear, the story died until The New Yorker discovered it and questioned him for a profile the magazine was working on.
Kennedy said he picked up the bear while going falconing and wanted to skin it for meat. His day lasted too long, however, and he had to leave the city on a flight. He disposed of the bear carcass by dumping it in Central Park beside an old bicycle, thinking to play into a rash…
