It’s bad optics. I support her cause, but if I was disabled enough to require a walker while out of my car, I would not go limping directly into the eye of the storm.
I say that as someone that has dealt with foot pain for years due to damaged nerves. Some days are better than others for me. Maybe she thought that was a good day for her to try it.
But she had no way of knowing what was about to happen.
Based on the last three weeks of the protest, she had nothing to worry about. She was perfectly safe and I’m sure well watched out for.
Doubt that she expected that to happen. The police had herded the crowd into a fairly tight space, and then they rode the horses right on through, starting with a column of two and broadening to three at the end.
I saw an one of the early videos, where she was simply on the edge of the crowd (probably because she was short and wanted to be able to see) and a horse sideswiped her and her scooter, knocking it over. The horse then brushed against the guy in the brown jacket, virtually dragging him into the street, where he fell and another horse appeared to be spooked and either stepped on him or hit him with its rear left hoof.
I have no idea what happened to him and nobody has mentioned him.
I did see a video of somebody in a brown jacket like his being dragged by the cops back through the police line and then being beaten in the head with a rifle or long weapon of some kind (muzzle down so it would hurt more and be more damaging). But I don’t know if it was the same person.
She didn’t. She was preaching peace and love and the eye of the storm moved into her.