Cmon Kevin, watch the video that shows no such thing. Call it out when it really happens.
Weren't police reluctant to send horses against protestors, pre-BLM, to avoid pictures like this?
The pendulum, I guess, and another reason to stay the f**k out of Texas.
I was involved in a die-in in DC in 1993 (AIDS) . We were lying in the middle of an intersection and they sent in horses. I don't think I've ever been so scared in my life. Those things are fucking huge when you're lying on the ground. (I did not get arrested nor trampled)
See also during the 2003 protests against the war in Iraq — mounted NYPD at the NYC protests slamming protesters against the barricades
Oh do I remember marching against Viet Nam in downtown Chicago with mounted police lined up on both sides of us and constantly turning the horses into the crowd... Scary then, scary now to see their glee abt being brutal.
I can't understand how the reaction of so many people who have kids in these institutions is "good" rather than white-hot outrage at how their kids are being treated.
I’m going to need you on the convention floor.
I was one among 250,000 marching against the Viet Nam War in the spring of 1971, and no horses or batons were deployed.
mounted police are common in downtown Austin. But, using them does open up more opportunities to charge protesters with assault even if the officer pushes into them: www.kxan.com/investigatio...
Escamilla said his office reviewed HALO, drone and body camera video of the May 31 encounter between Cornell and APD’s mounted horse unit in the lanes of Interstate 35. Protesters stormed the inter…