A Texas police department altered a policy Monday after pictures surfaced showing white officers on horses leading a handcuffed black man on a rope. (Photo: Adrienne Bell)
According to the Galveston Police Department, the officers, identified as P. Brosch and A. Smith, arrested Donald Neely, 43, for criminal trespass on Saturday.
The officers were"familiar" with Neely, and he had been warned about trespassing, the statement said. He was led on the rope about two blocks to"where the Mounted Patrol Unit was staging from."
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