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?
How has nobody pointed out the extremely obvious, cheap solution of laser pointers yet?
There's an amazing video from the Chile protests where the riot police are retreating and their ATV is on fire and they can't do shit because they can't fucking see anything. Can't find it right now though.
You're going to laugh but. Because they're illegal here for that reason.