Why was the polar bear,that fatally injured a British young man, subsequently killed?

The bear was shot while it was still attacking people.

Thank you for that article, @crisw!

The polar bear was still attacking people when it was shot.

I think ti would have been hunted down afterward and killed though. Once a bear loses its fear of humans and regards then as food, it is too dangerous.

It’s too bad, for the victims and the bear.

I always find it rather ironic though, murderers get death sentences that never come to pass for decades, but, a wild animal doing it’s natural wild animal thing is executed immediately if it harms or kills a person.

I’ve often said I’d much prefer to be taken out by a bear or a lion or a shark than by a serial killer.

In these ‘modern’ times people are less disturbed by a violent crime than they are an animal attack. Go figure.

I have heard that if an animal eats a human or human remains, it is the law in the US that it must be killed, lest it become a “man killer.”

people should just stay the heck away from wild animals

@FluffyChicken

There is no such law that I know of.

Key word “heard”