Photos show two mounted officers from the Galveston Police Department escorting a handcuffed man. One officer is leading the man, identified as 43-year-old Donald Neely, with what appears to be a rope.
A Texas police department is apologizing for its treatment of an African-American man that the police chief said caused the man"unnecessary embarrassment."
Neely was arrested and charged with criminal trespass Saturday, according to police. He was released Sunday, police said. Police said the officer is holding a"line" that was clipped to the man's handcuffs, not a rope."While this technique of using mounted horses to transport a person during an arrest is considered a best practice in certain scenarios, such as during crowd control, the practice was not used correctly in this instance," police said in a statement.
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