Because the BLM folks screamed that the kid was white and the gorilla shouldn’t be killed to protect the little cracker.
God created all children in his image.
They did the right thing in saving his life.
Or somebody took a few random tweets as an indication that there was major BLM agitation about this.
Nowadays, you can find somebody somewhere tweeting just about everything. Where's the indication that it was political and not just marginals who are always tweeting something stupid?