| Comment | It was absolutely fine until the police charged in. They'd been prowling around all day, riding through groups on the horses clearly trying to start something but everyone was happy and chill all day. Then it got to the point where the police were clearly bored and wanted to just end their shift so they CHARGED into a slap fight on fucking horseback! I had left moments before they did this - I literally got to the edge of the park and saw people fleeing and heard the shouting. Got home and watched everyone's videos of ppl messing around, laughter and then suddenly horses charging across where I had JUST been sitting. I wasn't drinking that day - just hanging out in the sun and people watching mostly - and though there was definitely a lot of drinking happening there wasn't the boozed up riot that it's been rewritten as. It wasn't a riot. It's just very good luck that the police didn't kill anyone by accident that day charging in like that. It was completely unnecessary. It's been mythologized as a riot to make the police actions seem warranted. |
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