Chicago cougar death still provoking debate
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It would appear that the dead cougar in Chicago still has folks riled up. Here’s another sampling from the scores of comments we’ve received at L.A. Unleashed:
OK, so next time our Chicago police officers find another cougar within our city limits, they’ll catch it. ...BUT... please do drop them a line ahead of time to tell them where you would like them to ship it for a live re-release in LA. Besides, we’ve got our hands full with the Cubs.
In the meantime, Timothy J. McNulty, the public editor of the Chicago Tribune, writes about how the story played out in print and on the Web.
For two days, thousands of Web users posted comments, many of them criticizing police for shooting the animal. Others argued that police were right to kill the cougar to prevent the large feline from escaping back into the city streets. A second-day story exploring how the animal possibly made its way from the Black Hills of South Dakota via Wisconsin added even more comments.
The newspaper, McNulty wrote, underplayed the story the first day.
-- Alice Short