Thousands are signing a petition that aims to hold the parents of the 4-year-old boy who fell into the Cincinnati Zoo enclosureaccountable for the death of Harambe, the gorilla who was shot and killed as a result. The "Justice for Harambe" petition directly calls for "the parents to be held accountable for the lack of supervision and negligence that caused Harambe to lose his life" and has already garnered more than 157,000 signatures.
Public outrage over Harambe's death is pouring across social media. A Facebook pagein Harambe's memory outlines a second petition calling for a new law that would hold any person "causing harm and or death of an animal at a zoo, sanctuary or wild animal park...criminally and financially responsible."
People are also inundating the zoo's Facebookand Instagram accounts and accusing the child's parents of negligence. "That child's parents should be responsible for the financial loss of that Gorilla. And any associated costs seeing that they couldn't adequately supervise their own child and now a magical animal lost his life because of their error," one Facebook user commented.
Charlamagne Tha God, Questlove, Holly Robinson Peete, and more have taken to social media to voice their sadness in the situation. "I just don't see how your kid ends up in a gorilla pit," Charlamagne tweeted. "I come from one of those if the kids being too quiet something wrong families."
