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?
I think the correct answer is to shoot the rider right in the fucking mouth, but I don't think we're there yet. The stuff about building barriers is good, but the idea that we can go back to midevil polearm tactics is delusional. The state would happily kill 100 protesters in retalliation for every fallen horse-cop and dog-cop. They are psycopaths.
Well then, tactical nukes it is. Who’s here’s allowed to buy smoke detectors?