Also, I might add, the only reason Australia USES police horses, still, is for the purposes of intimidation...

You see them in the streets, in Sydney and Melbourne at least, all the time...

It's because it would be far too blatant and obvious if the cops rode their motorbikes into a crowd, or had tanks, or APCs, so they use horses for the same purposes, lol... (see also, people using horses to attack protests/crowds in Australia, which has a long history in this country, and still seems to happen on a fairly regular basis, oddly...)

The OTHER reason is that the cops (can) use the horses as foils, as they have here... After all, what thinking person would DARE attack or even "threaten" a "harmless" creature like a horse, so it makes it extraordinarily easy to then demonise said person, just like here...

Fuck the cops, fuck the media, fuck the law, over here, and (I never thought I would say it, but) fuck your stupid "precious" cop horses. Come at me, Gestapo. I'm fucking ready to be "made an example of", you fascist shits...