The attorney for the two brothers who survived the fatal tiger attack at the San Francisco Zoo has accused officials there of knowingly maintaining a tiger grotto that "couldn't hold a house cat" and demands that city officials apologize for waging a "character assassination campaign" against his clients."We will hold everyone involved accountable for every single instance of this outrageous behavior," attorney Mark Geragos wrote on behalf of his clients, Paul and Kulbir Dhaliwal. Geragos denounced what he called an effort to "sully the reputation of our clients by lying to the press."
"We demand that the city and the zoo immediately retract and apologize for these untrue, defamatory statements," he wrote.
City Attorney Dennis Herrera formally requested Friday that the Dhaliwal brothers allow his office to inspect their cell phones and the car they took to the zoo on Christmas Day. The police have taken possession of the car and phones, but investigators do not have legal authority to search them. In his letter released Friday, Herrera asked the brothers to allow the city attorney's office to inspect the items when and if they are released by police. The letter also suggests the Dhaliwals have not been entirely forthcoming with police investigators, an accusation Geragos firmly denied.
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