In this video I think it’s demonstrated incredibly powerfully what importance needs to be placed upon anti-horse tools.
The horses do the bulk of the work in creating space that allows the police line to tighten the noose here. Without them they never would have controlled these crowds with people on multiple sides of them. They could not have maintained control.
There must be simply and effective methods to spook these horses without causing a danger to them. Something that could be deployed that would make the riders tell their superiors “we can’t deploy because the horses would be spooked by x”.
Anyway. What are other people’s thoughts here? Obviously this protest was unprepared for a fight (although several police have been hospitalised). What could small groups of 1-5 have done in the wider engagement to make things go differently?
That’s the ticket, trying to find something that wouldnt be trained to destimulate.
Since they are prey animals sudden intense stimulation that is unfamiliar is the highest chance of producing a spook as you dont want a freeze response.
Since they are shoed I dont think that a ground based response would yield the reaction.
I’m wondering if protesters could design their own version of that heat-ray thing the US cops have been testing. Directional heat that would make the horses back up regardless of rider.
Stick a fork in the door latch of a microwave and hook it up to some car batteries
Shit for the environment but a large mass of plastic bags propelled by a leaf blower may work but bags on a stick is a common training.
Maybe a modified leaf blower tip to make a loud sound