Tyke's Last Stand (Hawaii 1994)

On August 20, 1994, during a performance at Circus International in Honolulu, Hawaii, Tyke trampled and critically injured her groomer, Dallas Beckwith, throwing him around numerous times in the process.

According to Tyrone Taylor, Tyke's responsible trainer at the time (interviewed in documentary film), Tyke had tried to escape her circus abusers three previous times, seeking the freedom and joy that had been denied her for profit. No one came forwar

On August 20, 1994, Tyke was brutally gunned down in the streets of Honolulu, Hawaii, after her latest and last cry for change.

Tyke自幼被馬戲團買下，強迫進行各種表演訓練，度過長達21年非人道的表演生涯，受盡折磨，終於在1994年發狂踩死馴獸師後逃到市區。 最後警方開了86槍，將其射死。 牠的一生，只在最後半小時，獲得短暫的自由。 而牠驚恐的眼神，則是對人類的最大控訴。...

Police fired 87 bullets into Tyke over the next hour as she charged after pedestrians and smashed vehicles throughout several blocks. Tyke died of massive nerve damage and hemorrhaging of the...

On this day in 1994, a 21-year-old African elephant named Tyke was entering the ring of Circus America in Honolulu, Hawai’i, when she suddenly responded to two decades of abuse in the ...

This short documentary tells the story of Tyke, a circus elephant that went on a fatal rampage in 1994 after years of poor treatment...