Oh yeah and they do not even need to be big horses to be able to hurt or kill,the breed in that vid is also a pretty calm kind of breed and i prefer to be around these.My sister got a stallion that's in his puberty currently and he will ''playfully'' hurt you if he can :p

Mounted police are good for long patrols through nature,seeing them amongst crowds and being a target of them is so sad.

Oh yeah those most likely cost a lot,not particulary the breed of horse but the training.

A great 'deterrent' that only works against actual peaceful protesters. And then still accidents can happen. When the protest turns ugly, the horses are completely useless except to hurt people or their rider. So not a deterrent at all actually, only effect is to intimidate peaceful protesters.

Yeah, that's really freaking bad, even by Trump standards.

Old dude trying to return a riot helm.... gets pushed and cracks his skull as he falls.

Trump is saying he purposefully did that?
Ei. he wanted to fall bad and crack open his own skull?

*insert "sure jan" gif here*

Conspiracy theories about him "wanting to fall badly and crack open his own skull" + "its just cuz hes a antifa provocateur"....
doesn't he realise how crazy that makes him sound?

I could see a reason on the countryside, especially in remote places with lots of open fields, as a horse can get you practically everywhere, is faster and more endurant than someone on foot and doesn't rely on fuel which may be more difficult to get in such regions.

In a city however? Except maybe for some ceremonial traditions like at Buckingham Palace, they don't have any reason to be there anymore.

We do have riding Police in Luxembourg, too. But they don't ride horses, they ride motorbikes and increasingly bicycles.

It's the job of the police to protect the people. That goal is not possible to achieve from on top of a horse.

What are they going to do when they see an instigator, run him down knocking other people out of the way?
Protesters throwing things is nothing new.
Horses are skittish animals by nature, you can train them to get used to and remain calm for as many things as you can yet anything new to them will still spook a horse and make the nervous. (For some reason here horses are very skittish around bicycles. When I meet one on the trail or even coming from the opposite direction on a dirt road, I'm always afraid the horse is going to knock the rider off so badly do they 'fear' me riding a bicycle. Sometimes I have to stop and get off while talking calmly to the horse so they can pass)

Who puts a 1,000 kg animal in a crowd of people, risking injury to people and the animal. It's the fault of carrying on dumb traditions while better, safer, cheaper, less provocative measures are available.

It's hard to belief that's actually real. I guess it must be

https://www.democratandchronicle.com/story/news/2020/06/09/amherst-man-pushed-police-says-after-trump-tweet-black-lives-matter/5325567002/

Gov. Andrew Cuomo ripped the president's tweet, saying he should apologize for "the reprehensible, dumb comment," calling it written with "no proof whatsoever." Cuomo said angrily during his briefing Tuesday: "Do you think it was staged? Do you think the blood coming out of his head was staged?"

Anyone not fed up with Trump yet?


Twitter said that it considered Trump’s tweet speculative and that did not violate the platform’s rules, the Post reported.

Wtf Twitter. I wonder if Gugino's lawyer can sue the President and Twitter for slander or libel in this case. Should be an open and shut case.

The even sadder part is that dumb tweet has over 70k likes. He must have taken over Alex Jones fanbase after he got kicked off twitter. Probably half of them are bots. Bots have turned social media from a joke into a shitshow. Glad I've been off shitty facebook since 2011 and never joined twitter.

I remember when he had Dorsey at white house and was complaining about losing followers saying it was conspiracy against republicans.  I still don't think he understood why they were removed even after Dorsey told them they were bots.

https://youtu.be/pmHetCRE4t0

Over 300 attacks just on the press.

That's always been my issue with the "bad apples" argument that also says "there are bad teachers, mechanics, Mickey D's fry cooks."

There is very little room for error in a profession whose members are issued deadly weapons by the government and are protected from prosecution or lawsuits by qualified immunity, and there is certainly no room for outright malice on a police force.