  urlLink CNN.com : "The report said officers had four separate encounters with the cat, trying each time to return it safely to its owner, Steve Sipek, an actor who played Tarzan in B-movies decades ago. On the fourth attempt, Lee and another officer waited for a tranquilizer team to come to the scene, but when the tiger lunged toward the officers, Lee fired five rounds, according to the report. The cat was dead by the time the team arrived. " I feel for the tiger as much as the next animal rights supporter does, but I cannot blame this officer for putting the cat down if in fact it was charging them. 
