On May 30, 2020, the Dallas Police Mounted Unit was placed on standby in downtown Dallas should other officers need assistance with the anticipated 500 Black Lives Matters protesters expected to appear that night. What was touted as a peaceful protest turned ugly from the late hours to the early morning and mounted moved in to assist with crowd control. It would, however, turn out to be unlike any protest they’d ever worked in Dallas. As protesters switched from just hurling derogatory and racial epithets to throwing water bottles, rocks — just about anything they could get their hands on, one of those, a rock, struck the face of “Cash,” a 17.2, 1,800 pound Percheron gelding. As blood poured from his face, his rider, Sr. Corporal Ron Cunningham leapt from his back to tend his wounds. Listen to find out what happened.
