Robert F. Kennedy Jr, the independent presidential candidate and nephew of President John F. Kennedy, said he abandoned a dead young bear in Central Park.
Kennedy, 70, posted a three-minute video on X, in which she described the incident to actress and comedian Roseanne Barr.
He also said that The New Yorker magazine learned of the incident, the date of which is unknown, and asked him for confirmation.
Kennedy described driving north from New York City to go falcon hunting when he saw a woman in a pickup truck hit and kill a young bear.
“So I stopped and picked up the bear and put it in the back of my truck because I was going to skin it and it was in very good condition,” the politician said.
“I was going to put the meat in my refrigerator.”
Kennedy said he was late, which meant he drove back to New York City to have dinner with the dead bear in his car.
When dinner was delayed, he said, he didn’t have time to stop at his home in Westchester County before heading to the airport.
He and his friends came up with a plan inspired by a series of bicycle accidents that occurred around that time in the city.
“I wasn’t drinking, of course, but there were people drinking with me who thought it was a good idea. And I said I had an old bike in my car and someone asked me to get rid of it.”
“I said, ‘We’re going to put the bear in Central Park and make it look like it got hit by a bicycle,'” Kennedy said as Barr and a person off-screen laughed.
“We thought it would be funny for whoever found it or something,” Kennedy said, adding that the move instead attracted significant media attention.
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The New Yorker has not published a story about Kennedy’s role in the incident, reports NBC News, Sky’s US partner network.
Neither the magazine nor the Kennedy campaign responded to NBC News’ request for comment.
“It’s going to be a bad story,” Kennedy said in the video as people laughed.
In 2014, a dead bear cub was found in Central Park, generating significant media coverage.
The New York City Department of Parks and Recreation referred NBC News’ request for comment to the New York Police Department, which did not immediately respond.
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