They couldn’t bear it.

A jumpy suburban Westchester County cop shot a black bear roaming around a residential neighborhood — drawing outrage from horrified locals and wildlife experts who said the lost animal didn’t need to die.

Harrison Police Department officials tried to tamp down the furor with a Facebook post contending they couldn’t get tranquilizers or trapping help , so they made the difficult decision to “humanely euthanize the bear in the interest of public safety.”

A bear was shot and killed by cops in Westchester County. news12

But scores of neighbors responded, bearing a grudge against the cops for the dreadful spectacle they — and their kids — witnessed.

“You shot it out of a tree and it fell pretty far to the ground!” one neighbor posted. “It was moaning and groani

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