Environmental group calls for investigation into beheaded whale incident involving RFK Jr.

Aaron Pellish, CNN

(CNN) — An biology group is calling for Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to beryllium investigated complete a precocious resurfaced incident described by his girl successful which he beheaded a whale star that had washed ashore adjacent his home, nan latest successful a bid of revealing anecdotes highlighting his bizarre individual life.

The latest story, shared by Kennedy’s girl Kathleen “Kick” Kennedy successful a 2012 question and reply pinch Town & Country Magazine, specifications really Kennedy erstwhile utilized a chainsaw to trim disconnected nan caput of a dormant whale star that had washed up connected nan shores of their family’s location successful Hyannis Port, Massachusetts. He past drove nan whale’s caput backmost to their location successful New York connected nan tile of nan family’s minivan.

“Every clip we accelerated connected nan highway, whale juice would move into nan windows of nan car, and it was nan rankest point connected nan planet,” Kick Kennedy told nan magazine. “We each had integrative bags complete our heads pinch rima holes trim out, and group connected nan road were giving america nan finger, but that was conscionable normal day-to-day worldly for us.”

The communicative appeared to resurface connected societal media pursuing tabloid reports past week romantically linking Kick Kennedy pinch character Ben Affleck.

In consequence to nan communicative being recirculated, nan Center for Biological Diversity Action Fund, an biology conservation group that has endorsed Vice President Kamala Harris for president, wrote a missive to nan National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and called for nan authorities agency to unfastened an investigation into whether Kennedy violated national laws protecting wildlife and explained why it believes Kennedy’s actions could person jeopardized technological research.

“There are bully reasons why it is forbidden for immoderate personification to cod aliases support parts of immoderate endangered species,” Brett Hartl, nationalist governmental head for nan Center for Biological Diversity Action Fund, wrote successful nan letter. “Most importantly, captious investigation opportunities are mislaid erstwhile individuals scavenge a wildlife star and interfere pinch nan activity of scientists. This is peculiarly existent of marine mammals, which are immoderate of nan astir difficult wildlife type successful nan world to study.”

CNN has reached retired to NOAA and Kennedy for comment.

Kennedy suspended his independent White House bid and endorsed erstwhile President Donald Trump connected Friday aft he grounded to make gains connected Trump aliases Harris successful caller weeks. Kennedy has said he plans to beryllium “campaigning actively” for Trump. On Tuesday, a Trump run spokesperson confirmed Kennedy had joined nan Trump modulation team.

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The whale incident is nan latest a drawstring of reports detailing Kennedy’s individual life that drew nationalist headlines and bogged down his campaign. In May, he confirmed that successful 2010, a parasitic worm crawled into his encephalon and died, causing him immoderate wellness problems. Weeks later, he denied allegations made successful a Vanity Fair article that he had antecedently eaten a canine and sidestepped accusations of intersexual battle levied by a erstwhile nanny. And earlier this month, he revealed he placed a dormant carnivore star successful Central Park successful New York successful 2014, an incident that drew world media attraction astatine nan time.

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