RFK Jr. Admitted to Dumping Bear Carcass in Central Park?

Claim: In August 2024, U.S. presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. admitted to dumping a bear carcass in New York's Central Park a decade earlier, staging the scene to look like a bike accident.

Rating: True

On Aug. 4, 2024, in an apparent effort to get ahead of a New Yorker profile set to be published the following day, independent U.S. presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. released a video on his social media platforms in which he recounted a story about ditching a bear cub carcass in New York's Central Park in 2014 and staging the scene to look like a bike accident: