The dopes that threw glass bottles at a horse are giving you all a bad name...

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Los Angeles - On Monday, August 14, 2000, at approximately 8:45 p.m.,

personnel assigned to Metropolitan Division were involved in the dispersal of a

violent crowd at Olympic Boulevard and Figueroa Street. Officers from

Metropolitan Division’s Mounted Platoon were moving a crowd from the

demonstration area when they were attacked by a barrage of rocks, golf balls,

cement pieces, and other dangerous bottles. Police Officer III Kelli Shurian, Serial

No. 27344 was riding police equine "Dakota". Both were struck by numerous

objects including bottles. After striking Officer Shurian and Dakota, the bottles

shattered resulting in two lacerations to the right rear lo.htf Dakota.

Dakota sustained a 1 ½" laceration and a second 1" laceration/puncture wound.

The puncture wound bled profusely. Since the officers were under attack from

the violent crowd Officer Shurian and Dakota continued their assigned duty to

clear the crowd. At the conclusion of their mission, Dakota’s wounds were

examined and determined to be serious in nature. A pressure bandage was used

to stem any further bleeding. An examination of the injury this morning, August

15, 2000, indicated that sutures would not be necessary to close the wound.

Dakota has exhibited stiffness to the rear leg and is unable to be utilized by the

Department at this point. An examination by a veterinarian will be conducted if

further problems are observed.

The officers of the Mounted Platoon form a strong bond between themselves and

their horses. Rather than going home, Officer Shurian remained at the DNC

staging area throughout the night to ensure that Dakota was safe and to apply any

further care as necessary.

Police Officer Shurian and Dakota will be available for viewing and

photographs by the media, between the hours of 2:00 P.M. and 3:30 P.M.

at Parker Administration Building, 150 North Los Angeles Street, Los

Angeles.

How does a bottle make an inch deep puncture wound in the flank of a horse? Does this magic bottle shatter on contact with horse flesh and then burrow deeply of its own accord? Especially since the bottles being thrown were plastic water bottles?

I'm afraid poor Dakota was being ridden by one of the officers who were defending the Public Good by crushing fleeing people against fences and barracades.

Poor Dakota.

This is precisely the kind of childishness that many of our fellow protesters have unfortunately encouraged and that inevitably serves to befog the real issues. An injured horse? Good Lord what will these anarchist devils do next? It is a perfect story for the crafty and ruthless and yet somehow infantile elites of this country, from Bill Clinton to Peter Jennings and on down. Their hearts feel a pang for the sea otter and field rodent but could care less whether or not entire nations starve or are bombed into nothingness. The destruction of the ancient cities and history of Mesopotamia (today's Iraq), along with its current inhabitants? Pah. The liquidation of Tibetan culture and society? Shrug. But the enslaved chicken masses and the endangered spotted owl are American Holocausts. So in this case, a cut on the leg of a stupid and literally sub-human animal serves to justify the abuse of hundreds of people and an incursion into free speech rights.

I was wondering about the equines right from the beginning.

Why? Why are you doing this to innocent horses? Have horses evolved to habitate

paved regions?

The only obvious explanation is inordinate amounts of cash sloshing around in someone's

budget. Major ego trip, too, to be up above people and controlling expensive animals. Grow up.

Police agent-provocateurs will throw bottles and trash windows even when the Black Bloc phones in sick. That is why you will NEVER win the PR battle no matter how peaceful you are.

Alongside the "public viewing" of Dakota, let's have a few dozen bruised, gassed, trampled marchers "on display" as well.

Police officers do not throw things at each other...talk about reaching for your conspiracy theory! Be kind to the horses, you morons, they have partnered man in all of his pursuits for centuries, including the native americans and other wronged groups supported by the organizations at Staples. The horses utilized in police work are commonly animals rescued from far worse fates by animal welfare groups and subsequently donated for lives of excellent care and devotion by their human partners. You say the important thing is the message you are trying to send...it will never reach it's goal of influencing the MAJORITY of people in this country if you act as if harming a horse is no big deal, or try to avoid responsibility. You have to be bigger than that to achieve anything. It is not just the rest of the world that needs to wake up.....

Who gives a fuck about an injured cop?The cops are the ones who brought weapons to a political rock concert. What did they expect? They were cruising for trouble. And what gives them the right to abuse those poor horses by putting them in a stressful situation?

Monday night's violence is solely the fault of the police.

For a world without police.

CT

This is obviously an LAPD post. I can't believe that they are trying to make us feel sorry for a friggen' horse that THEY introduced into the situation (by the way, it is unethical to use animals for police purposes), while ignoring the hundreds of innocent peaceful protesters that THEY injured. Funny how none of that is mentioned in this compassion piece. I guess this is humorous to them, having just arrested animal rights protesters.

When are you intelligence officers going to realize that we are not as stupid as you are?

No, police would NEVER throw things at each other just to justify violence! What kind of non-sense if that? They would NEVER shoot at people unless they had a JUSTIFIABLE REASON! They would NEVER shoot rubber bullets at peaceful concertgoers, they must have DESERVED IT! They would never plant evidence on someone just because of their RACE, and if they did, then those people are probably guilty of SOMETHING! And those horses are VOLUNTEERS, they are more than happy to place themselves in a violent situation just to please their obviously superior human masters! These officers would NEVER attempt to prevent people from excercising their constitutional rights? They are here to PROTECT AND SERVE!

WHAT IS WRONG WITH YOU PEOPLE!

CT says: "For a world without police."

What a crock. A world without police would rapidly become a world in which each little fiefdom was ruled by the toughest neighborhood gang.

Maybe you'd rather be ruled by the Hells Angels or the Crips, but I don't think you're gonna enjoy going before their version of a "police review board".

There's no system so bad that dopey ideas (like "a world without police") can't make it worse. The idea, try to remember, is to make things BETTER.

DeadHeadEmeritus is obviously a cop. Remember that when reading his posts.

"CopHeadEmeritu" is obviously the REAL cop here. Note how he conspicuously points out cops (ie "pacifists") in order to draw attention away from himself.

Fuckin' anti-cop fuckin' COP fucker.



[in other words, paranoia is not always a useful tool]