No Zimbabwe Charges For 'Cecil The Lion'-Killing Dentist

Minnesota denist Walter Palmer won’t face charges in Zimbabwe for killing the beloved “Cecil the Lion” on a hunting expedition, according to Agence France-Presse.

Zimbabwe officials said he didn’t know he was committing an offense and that his papers were “in order.”

Palmer became an infamous figure nationally over the summer when shot the famous lion, beheaded him and skinned him in July, a hunt which cost him $55,000.

Protestors showed up at his Bloomington dentistry practice, and he was forced to deactivate his business’s website and Facebook page.

But Zimbabwe won’t press charges for the kill.

“Palmer came to Zimbabwe because his papers were in order,” Zimbabwe’s Minister Oppah Muchinguri told reporters. “We are now going to review how we issue hunting quotas.”

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