Fuck the LAPD, and fuck law enforcement’s use of animals as copaganda and as weapons to brutalize human beings.
Horses are naturally skittish; their instinct is to flee, not to “attack.” Their limbs are fragile, meaning they can shatter when being forced to stomp a human body. In the footage circulating of the anti-ice protests where cops are using horses to harm protestors, the animals are clearly in distress and the danger to both human and animal is evident. In one viral video, a cop tried to use his horse to trample a protestor then had to resort to using his baton, but ended up smashing another cop’s horse in the face. In the past few years police horses have died after being spooked by drones, from heat exhaustion, and neglect by officers who don’t feed or water them.
And then there are the K-9 units. There are 50k active police dogs in the US and they are bred and trained primarily for “suspect apprehension” - though of course, the majority of “suspects” bitten by dogs are not dangerous threats. They are also disproportionately black. (This practice dates back to slavery days when dogs were used to hunt down escaped slaves.)
The training for these animals is violent, and the way they are used on human beings is violent. At the end of the day, the animals are not the problem, the protestors are not the problem; the COPS are the problem.
the jeans with that belt…. multiple people wearing a striped long sleeve shirt… the one person jumping while wearing a pride flag…. bring this era back
and let me just say- a trinket is only authentic if it’s secondhand or handmade btw……. A TRINKET IS NOT A BRAND NEW MASS PRODUCED ITEM THAT U CAN BUY AT TARGET!!!!! unfortunately that is NOT a trinket, that’s just trash, diva ♥️