Robert F. Kennedy Jr. Admits In Video That He Dumped Dead Bear Cub In New York Park

The independent presidential candidate said he dumped a bicycle along with the bear in Central Park to make it look like a cyclist hit the cub.

Independent presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. admitted in a video posted to his social media Sunday that about a decade ago, he dumped a dead bear cub in Central Park to make it look like it got hit by a bicycle.

In the video, in which actor Roseanne Barr also appears, Kennedy tells a story of driving in upstate New York when a woman driving in front of him hit a cub bear and killed it. He said he pulled over and put the bear in the back of his van to eventually skin the bear “because it was in very good condition” and put the meat in his refrigerator.

After he put the bear in his van, he went hawking with friends and he didn’t have time to go to his home in Westchester and put the bear away. Instead, he was due for dinner in the city. The dinner went late and he had to go to the airport, but the bear was still in his car.

“I didn’t want to leave the bear in the car because that would have been bad,” he said.

The presidential candidate said at the time there had been a series of bicycle accidents in Central Park because of the new bicycle lanes. A few people who were with him, who Kennedy said had been drinking, thought Kennedy’s “redneck” idea to put the bear in Central Park was a good idea, along with an old bike that was also in his car.