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Cecil the lion’s US killer returns to work
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The Minnesota dentist who killed Cecil the lion returned to work yesterday after weeks away, walking silently past a swarm of media and a few of protesters outside his dental clinic calling for him to be sent to Zimbabwe to face trial.
A security guard met Walter Palmer in the parking lot of the Bloomington clinic as he walked from a street where police had blocked off traffic, whisking him inside past a barrage of reporters shouting questions.
Palmer announced on Sunday in an interview — his first since the uproar broke over Cecil’s killing during a hunt in Zimbabwe’s vast Hwange National Park in July — that he would return to work, saying his patients and staff need him.
The small throng of protesters gathered near the clinic didn’t match the furor in the days after Palmer was named as Cecil’s killer, when hundreds held vigil for the big cat with the black mane and forced River Bluff Dental to shut temporarily.
Just a few protesters were on site when the dentist appeared shortly after 7am. Cathy Pierce kept yelling “Extradite Palmer!” as he entered the clinic.
Pierce said she drove more than an hour from her home in East Bethel to the Bloomington clinic to “fight for animals who can’t fight for themselves.”
She scoffed at Palmer’s suggestion in his interview that protesters had unfairly targeted his staff and family, in some cases threatening violence.
“We’re not picking on his staff or his family. We’re picking on him. We want him to know that we’re not going to forget.”
But while Palmer’s guides on the hunt have either been charged or await charges for their involvement in Cecil’s killing, the Zimbabwean government’s pursuit of the dentist has cooled off amid fears it could hamper a hunting industry that is lucrative for the country.
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