JaneyP
Well-Known Member
Oh god the more i watch it the more i cant decide !! Pass !!
but you dont expect to see a police officer hit a horse with something he/she uses as a weapon against thugs!!
Reassuring scared horses makes them worse - it confirms to them that there was something worthy of being scared of in the first place. You need to be firm so that they take confidence from you.
oh well i was just very shocked, maybe he/she did not hit the horse and maybe the horse needed to be put back in line in such a situation. Either way i was shocked.
The horse wasn't hit!!
The police officer is just waving the baton around/straightening it out.
The police officer on top doesn't do anything in the shots we can see and extend the baton once the horse has stopped. He then asks it to move forward.
The horse doesn't react AT ALL from being 'apparently' thwacked with the baton.
Ditto. He shouldn't have smacked the horse (it is not 100% clear that he DID) but I don't think the horse would've felt much through the sheet/rug.TBH, they probably do training for this, and maybe the horse shouldn't have reacted that way. I see the horse got hit, but couldn't see that it got a 'beating'. It also as a rug on, so most of their hits (if they went on the rear?) would not have been felt as much anyway.
I far more disgusted at the total pr*ck that let the firework off in the first place.
op, just out of interest, what would you have done if it was you on the horse in that situation?
Nope, don't see a problem there.
If he wanted the horse to go forward and it wouldn't, a couple of cracks on its backside is the right thing to do.
I don't think you actually get the full sequence of events from that clip.
As for complaining about the officer, I am gob smacked .
That was what I thought, surely if the horse had been hit it would have shot forward or shown some reaction, it didn't.
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I have, that poor horse is doing its job as best it can. To beat i8t with a metal truncheon is unjust. I feel we should call for this officer to be retrained, a vet to asses this horse and the horse be retrained/rehabilitated.
Hmm, having looked at that twice I don't think he is "beating" the horse. Its hard to describe but those sticks they carry (don't know the correct name) are a bit like a magic wand, in sections and they have to be snapped to become one rigid baton, it looks to me as if he was just fixing the baton before he approached the crowd.
Thank you for posting this!
You can complain at https://www.avonandsomerset.police.uk/contact/general_enquiries/complaint_form.aspx
I have, that poor horse is doing its job as best it can. To beat i8t with a metal truncheon is unjust. I feel we should call for this officer to be retrained, a vet to asses this horse and the horse be retrained/rehabilitated.
Thank you for posting this!
You can complain at https://www.avonandsomerset.police.uk/contact/general_enquiries/complaint_form.aspx
I have, that poor horse is doing its job as best it can. To beat i8t with a metal truncheon is unjust. I feel we should call for this officer to be retrained, a vet to asses this horse and the horse be retrained/rehabilitated.
Thank you for posting this!
You can complain at https://www.avonandsomerset.police.uk/contact/general_enquiries/complaint_form.aspx
I have, that poor horse is doing its job as best it can. To beat i8t with a metal truncheon is unjust. I feel we should call for this officer to be retrained, a vet to asses this horse and the horse be retrained/rehabilitated.
Thank you for posting this!
You can complain at https://www.avonandsomerset.police.uk/contact/general_enquiries/complaint_form.aspx
I have, that poor horse is doing its job as best it can. To beat i8t with a metal truncheon is unjust. I feel we should call for this officer to be retrained, a vet to asses this horse and the horse be retrained/rehabilitated.