Posted on 09/24/2020 10:46:09 AM PDT by PBRCat
Chicago’s “Dread Head Cowboy” rode his horse to exhaustion — and narrowly close to death — while protesting gun violence against children on the Dan Ryan Expressway earlier this week, Cook County prosecutors said.
The horse will never ride again and may need to be euthanized, Assistant State’s Attorney Kevin Deboni said Wednesday, adding that one veterinarian compared Adam Hollingsworth’s actions to “forcing an 80-year-old woman to run a full marathon.”
Authorities found the horse collapsed on the pavement near 95th Street Monday, overheated, dehydrated, bleeding from the hooves, and with eyes so dilated they resembled “cartoon eyes,” Deboni said. The horse, coerced to run seven miles without horseshoes, also had sores beneath its saddle, which wasn’t properly padded, the prosecutor said.
After differentiating the well-intentioned protest to the horse’s alleged poor treatment, Judge David Navarro ordered Hollingsworth, 33, held on $25,000 bail for animal cruelty.
“The horse doesn’t know it was part of a protest,” the judge said. “The horse only knows how it was treated. And ... it appears that treatment was criminal.”
Hollingsworth’s protest began about 4:30 p.m. Monday as he galloped into the southbound lanes at 35th Street. Holding back traffic as police cars and motorcycles tailed him, he eventually exited at 95th Street.
The horse trotted at times, but was galloping for most of the ride, Deboni said. When the horse slowed down, most likely from exhaustion, Hollingsworth allegedly kicked and whipped it.
Hollingsworth, known for his civic activism, broadcast his protest on Facebook Live, saying “I shut down the Dan Ryan! Kids lives matter!”
But Deboni claimed that, in another video posted June 11, Hollingsworth said he would “ride his horse until it dies.”
The horse, in critical condition, continues to collapse during treatment, and is never expected to stabilize, Deboni said.
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On other occasions, he was videotaped riding a horse shouting "F*ck" the police and "F*ck 12."
Bury him in the same hole as the horse.
If anyone else did this, he’d be arrested.
Actually, I think he WAS arrested.
Guess what would happen if anyone here would have abused this animal...
Like pushing Joe Biden into running for President.
“If anyone else did this, he’d be arrested.”
Hollingsworth, 33, held on $25,000 bail for animal cruelty.
Poor horse! Hope the POS gets jail time.m
This dirty b______d needs to be run over with a Roto-tiller, then beaten bloody. Ignorant sunhuman savage. I hope the horse can be cured, then sent to a horse sanctuary for spoiling for the rest of its life.
The horse didn't get to call it a day at 8:30 AM.
That poor horse, what a complete piece of sh*t this guy is. No empathy, and no surprises there!
If he were caught doing that around where I live he would have been beaten with the harness. What a POS.
How much gun violence took place on the Dan Ryan Expressway earlier this week?
there are no words disgusting or vile enough to describe my reaction to this savage.
But horsewhip him first.
I’m sad hearing about such a magnificent animal having been stupidly, needlessly abused. the rider had no regard whatsoever for the animal’s wellbeing. He was enjoying his ‘Look@Me!!!” moment far too much. Don’t be THAT rider!
I’m sick to my stomach over this. I knew yesterday the horse would be in bad shape and had commented for them to please find the horse a new home. I didn’t expect he’d need to be euthanized. Let’s euthanize the a$$hole and save the horse!
Hang on, now.
The ride was live on FB and other places and the feed continued right up until the moment the guy was arrested and then some time after.
The horse was not “collapsed” and was breathing just fine after a few minutes rest.
It had a tender right hind hoof, likely a piece of debris from the road stuck in its frog.
I watched the whole thing and there was NO blood anywhere to be seen.
Only *after* the so-called “animal control” took it away, it’s claimed to be hurt badly?
Every year, for over 30 years [except this covid fake one] at least a hundred riders and wagons start down the old pike and ride 20 miles to their first stop and another dozen or so to their next, the next day to celebrate Old national Pike Days.
None of the animals are ever “suffering”.
The guy was an “all lives matter/kids’ live matter” champion and he’s also black.
He’s being railroaded, IMO.
I believe nothing that animal rights wackos say, especially when they are trying to slam someone who certainly seems to be leaning rightwards.
This “story” stinks of emotion-punching hyperbole and lies.
It seems that some who virtue signal about how caring they are, are actually cruel people masquerading as nice and compassionate.
Scumbag. I can’t stand anyone who mistreats animals.
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