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?
As for the stretched cable, I know chilean protesters used a cable attached to fixed anchors to stop a literal APC. I'm not sure how well it would work against horses
It’s extremely easy to stop and halt APCs. Obscure all vindows and vision blocks. Certain barricades they will get stuck on. They need a lot of room to move and turn wide so channeling them into tight specs helps. A big APC is scary but if you can get people on it or near it then you will be able to damage radio equipment, lights, and people’s ability to use it.