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IrishBubbaLiberal

(2,241 posts) Wed Jun 18, 2025, 12:00 PM Wednesday

Criminal LAPD on horses charge into people, swinging clubs

LAPD ON HORSES ATTACK PEACEFUL
PROTESTORS!!
— Raider (@iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social) 2025-06-18T11:39:34.001Z

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Criminal LAPD on horses charge into people, swinging clubs (Original Post) IrishBubbaLiberal Wednesday OP

Hate it! OC375 Wednesday #1

Using horses as weapons lame54 Wednesday #2

This reminds me of my grandmother's description Mossfern Wednesday #3

OC375

(57 posts)

1. Hate it!

Reply to IrishBubbaLiberal (Original post)

Wed Jun 18, 2025, 12:46 PM

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I hate it when law enforcement and the military use animals for anything requiring force or risking injury. Search and rescue and sniffing for things is fne by me, but animals have no part in direct human conflict, real or imagined, IMHO.

lame54

(38,079 posts)

2. Using horses as weapons

Reply to IrishBubbaLiberal (Original post)

Wed Jun 18, 2025, 12:49 PM

Wednesday

Mossfern

(3,941 posts)

3. This reminds me of my grandmother's description

Reply to IrishBubbaLiberal (Original post)

Wed Jun 18, 2025, 12:57 PM

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of the Cossacks' behavior during the pogroms in Ukraine* at the turn of the century.
"They came on horses with their sticks and hit us on the head." Her exact words.

*Ekaterinoslav- now Dnipro)

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