The LAPD’s Metro Mounted Platoon focuses on “crime prevention, crowd management, and handling demonstrations.” But its recent deployments have prompted accusations of excessive force.

Videos shared on social media and on TV news show members of the LAPD Metro Mounted Platoon using horses to force protesters back from the downtown L.A. Civic Center and, in at least one case ...

A federal judge took the Los Angeles Police Department to task this week, approving a restraining order preventing officers from using nonlethal weapons against journalists. The Los Angeles Press ...

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The footage came from a June 9, 2025, news livestream (archived). That stream showed a person on a rooftop near First Street and Los Angeles Street stumble backwards and fall, dropping a small ...

The LAPD’s Metro Mounted Platoon focuses on “crime prevention, crowd management, and handling demonstrations.” But its recent deployments have prompted accusations of excessive force.