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I haven’t seen this on here so I thought I might share:

“i am not a horse trainer, i’ve just been around horses my whole life” SHOULD give you enough warning to not take this person’s advice, like. i don’t give a fuck if that’s gatekeepy to you or whatever but that really sums up why you shouldn’t be listening to their advice in the context of these protests. you cannot make light of the situation, and as an extension, do not settle for who is giving you advice

“push your weight against their chest” what’s missing here is either a lack of understanding of what makes horses so powerful, or a lack of context given depending on what that horse is even doing. a horse moving towards you at any sort of speed is not going to be deterred by you trying to place pressure on it. you’re gonna be mush before that horse even registers you’re even there, particularly with all the stimulation of a crowd and having to listen to its rider through that.

“some horses are trained to ignore their natural instinct” YES. GUESS WHICH HORSES. SPECIFICALLY. ARE TRAINED. TO IGNORE THEIR INSTINCTS? a police horse is not going to listen to you, a person out of hundreds or even thousands surrounding them, because you want to try and lean against their withers or something. not stationary, and definitely not at speed. your own pet horse, or your favourite horse at the stables you ride at, is NOT analogous to a horse conditioned into being used as a weapon. would you look at a police dog and think, “well fluffy back home listens to me when i tug on his collar a bit, surely this police dog will respond the same way and not rip my arm to shit if i do the same thing”? 

if you see this video going around i IMPLORE you to report the shit out of it, this is the kind of video that gets people killed. i wouldn’t try this shit with someone else’s domestic horse, i dread to think what would happen if someone took this advice against one of the behemoths ridden by the cops. it’s ignorant both in terms of horse training and protest, and it’s dangerous to the point where it can get people killed. 

a black woman named zoe amira posted a video on youtube. this video is an hour long and filled with art and music from black creators. it has a ton of ads, and in result will rack up a ton of revenue. 100% of the ad revenue from the video will be dispersed between various blm organizations, including bail-out funds for protesters. it will be split between the following, dependent on necessity

brooklyn bail fund

minnesota freedom fund

atlanta action network

columbus freedom fund

louisville community bail fund

chicago bond

black visions collective

richmond community bail fund

the bail project inc

nw com bail fund

philadelphia bail fund

the korchhinski-parquet family gofundme

george floyd’s family gofundme

blacklivesmatter.com

reclaim the block

aclu

turn off your adblocker and do not skip ads. between each time watch 3-5 other videos (mix it up) before restarting. this will ensure you aren’t marked as spam by youtube. mute the tab if you need to focus elsewhere but don’t mute the video itself. and let. it. play.

youtube will donate to blm for you.

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Don’t let them paint him in an unfavorable light, he is a student, a speaker, a mere teenager, he was protesting peacefully and they detained him violently

CALL CPD IF YOU CAN