Protesters showing disgust at police horses - student protest London, 9 December 2010

Protesters showing their disgust as mounted police are getting ready to go into Parliament Square.

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• student protest
• march
• london
• 9 december
• 2010
• mounted police
• police horses
• metropolitan
• police

[Cjaz84]

Those are very well trained horses actually.....stupid city kids.....lucky you don't get kicked in the head. This is what happens when the nanny state takes away the bottle, though. Can't imagine how it will be in the US when they cut back on food stamps. People don't know how to live off beans, rice and cabbage round here.

[Levinaism]

@Cjaz84 @MichaelEngel Of course the horses are very well trained, I don't think anyone is disputing that. The problem is however, in my opinion, that if u start using police horses at a place where a huge crowd has been kettled, loads of innocent people (YES the majority were protesting peacefully!) will be hit too (as happened at the 2nd protest, pls search on YouTube for "Mounted Police charge protesters at Whitehall 24 Nov"). I think that THIS is what the people at the video were afraid for.

[Levinaism]

@mrbside80 Apart from disagreeing with calling the people on the video 'not so peaceful' (were they smashing anything or anyone?), I find it INCREDIBLY DISGUSTING that you point out that they're 'foreigners'. WAKE UP, we live in a multi cultural society - people whom don't necessarily have your milk white skin colour, may also have been born here. And if even if they didn't, they are still allowed to criticize. Eh, democracy anyone??

[egokick]

@mrbside80 if you dont like the protests, you know where north korea is, I'm sure you'd be much happier there. If people don't have a right to protest and complain then neither do you.

[macplumber]

Horses are a prey species and as such it's their nature to run first and ask questions later. Most fear is acquired. The more profound the stimulus that produces the fear the harder it will be to eradicate. Pain is probably the most likely stimulus to induce a deep-seated fear.

[BilanDude]

i should have been their... lol

[droid98756]

Shame on them protesters. They should go fucking home

[Liendoelcm]

I am not sure.....but I think I heard one of the horses shouting back....."Naddi, naddi na naa"

......what ever that means!

[dalektaliban]

umm i don't know if you know this guys, but I'm pretty sure the protesters were yelling at the mounted police, not the horses

[penguinbellpengilly]

@Levinaism i watched the video that you suggested to watch and i fail to see what is wrong....

[MrHammerman91]

You go home twat!

[casinohijack]

@obifsil The thing is to learn from the situation and regroup and re-plan another protest. The one thing i would be thinking is of dispersing in different directions that way its not as easy to control people which is what they are trying to do in the first place. The idea is to go some where that the horses are not that way you can still be peaceful protesters. If you want to have a peaceful protest the last thing you need are angry cops on horses.

[obifsil]

@casinohijack its a lose lose situation really cause the police could of done nothing and it could of turned out like the london riots and then the police would of been slashed at for not doign the right thing but they go in and do the right thing and they still get slashed at saying its wrong what there doing, so they make choice of whats best and to be fair if they weren;t slightly scared they would of stood still and let the horse hit them insted of running back