As the ongoing demonstrations against ICE raids continue, the Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD)’s use of police horses for crowd control is being called into question.
Over the past two weeks alone, dozens of videos have been shared of mounted officers on horseback trampling protesters and riding horses through fireworks and clouds of tear gas.
On June 8th, the Los Angeles-based account Hear In LA shared a video of multiple law enforcement officers on horseback repeatedly trampling an unknown person. Seconds into the video, what appears to be fireworks are set off in the direction of the mounted officers and the unidentified person who was trampled.