JACKSONVILLE, Fla. – A 26-year-old man is facing charges after the Jacksonville Sheriff’s Office said he hit a police horse in the face after the Georgia-Florida game on Saturday.
According to JSO, officers were lined up along Union Street to make sure people leaving the area were using the sidewalks and were not walking across the street.
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The man managed to walk through the line of officers and walked between four police horses that were in the street, police said.
The sergeant riding police horse Ace said the man got close to the horse and then the sergeant saw Ace’s head suddenly “jerk up and to the right.”
Parts of the report are redacted, but JSO said the man was “shadowboxing and swinging his arms around” when officers tried to get ahold of him.
One of the officers hit the man in the face, leaving him with “a small abrasion underneath his right eye.”
The man was taken into custody and charged with misdemeanor resisting an officer without violence, misdemeanor disorderly intoxication and “causing harm” to a police animal, which is a third-degree felony.
NOTE: News4JAX is not naming the man because of the nature of the charges.