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[h=4]Minn. dentist who killed Cecil the lion returns to work[/h]Walter Palmer returned to work Tuesday morning in an attempt to resume his life and career, but the presence of protesters, cameras and journalists made sure his day at the office was anything but business as usual.
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The Minnesota dentist whose killing of Cecil the lion fueled global backlash returned back to his practice in Bloomington. Protestors and police were outside the office when Walter Palmer arrived to chants of "Extradite Palmer."
In this undated photo provided by the Wildlife Conservation Research Unit, Cecil the lion rests in Hwange National Park in Hwange, Zimbabwe.(Photo: Andy Loveridge, AP)
BLOOMINGTON, Minn. - Walter Palmer returned to work Tuesday morning in an attempt to resume his life and career, but the presence of protesters, cameras and journalists made sure his day at the office was anything but business as usual.
Palmer made a beeline for the front door of his dental practice shortly after 7 a.m. as a handful of demonstrators and animal activists shouted at him, and photographers scrambled to document his return. Bloomington Police were on hand to maintain order and assure Palmer's safety.
One woman, who was not a patient or associate of Palmer's, turned out to support him. "Crazy people that are out here calling for his murder and extraditing and hanging and stuff, it's insane,"<span style="color: Red;">*</span>said<span style="color: Red;">*</span>Stephanie Michaelis of Bloomington, Minn.<span style="color: Red;">*</span>"The media should back down and let this thing be settled in the foreign courts if that's what needs to happen."
Palmer<span style="color: Red;">*</span>is the big game hunter who shot and killed Cecil, a beloved and collared lion who lived in a Zimbabwe game refuge in July.
In an interview conducted jointly by The Associated Press and the Minneapolis Star Tribune that advisers said would be the only one granted, Palmer said again that he thinks he acted legally and that he was stunned to find out his hunting party had killed one of Zimbabwe's treasured animals.
An avid sportsman, Palmer shut off several lines of inquiry about the hunt, including how much he paid for it or others he has undertaken. No videotaping or photographing of the interview was allowed. During the 25-minute interview, Palmer gazed intensely at his questioners, often fiddling with his hands and turning occasionally to an adviser, Joe Friedberg, to field questions about the fallout and his legal situation.
"It was interesting to see how he wanted to control what got out there," AP correspondent Brian Bakst told KARE-TV's<span style="color: Red;">*</span>Lou Raguse in an interview about his discussion with Palmer. "People have seen the pictures of him, this dentist with the bright white smile all over the internet. We never saw that smile once. It was just a very serious, business-like expression the entire time."
Bakst told KARE-TV that<span style="color: Red;">*</span>Palmer was very careful about sharing too much detail of the incident. "He wouldn't answer how much he paid for the hunt. Wouldn't really get into any level of detail of whether he would go back to Africa," Bakst said. "He wouldn't talk much about the kill and how this lion was first in their gaze. And how they targeted this specific lion."
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