No it is not California.

CHICAGO — A Chicago man known as the “Dreadhead Cowboy” is facing three charges after riding his horse on the Dan Ryan Monday afternoon.

At around 4:30 p.m., police responded to the southbound lanes of the Dan Ryan after Adam Hollingsworth, 33, better known as the “Dreadhead Cowboy,” was seen riding his horse on the expressway near 35th Street.

He rode for around 30 minutes as traffic slowed to a halt with Illinois State Police and Chicago police following close behind. Police said they asked Hollingsworth and those who were with him to exit the expressway multiple times and said they refused.

They exited at 95th Street and Hollingsworth was placed into custody. He was charged with reckless conduct, disobeying a police officer and criminal trespass.

State police said another man, Darron Luster, 55, attempted to gain control of the horse after Hollingsworth was arrested. Luster was charged with obstructing and resisting arrest.

Earlier this summer, Mayor Lightfoot dubbed Hollingsworth “The Census Cowboy” in an effort to bring awareness around filing out the census.

Hollingsworth rode Monday with the goal of turning more attention to the recent slayings of so many children this past summer.

“The thing is to send a message that our children are dying,” activist Mark Carter said. “That there are no resources coming to our communities.”

They’re calling for the mayor and governor to fund mental health, education and social programs and development in neighborhoods they said have been neglected.

Chicago Animal Control was called to the scene and took the animal to their facility.

The horse, who is called “NuNu,” had multiple injuries when animal control arrived. Police said it was bleeding from the left hoof, its right hoof was injured and the right side of the horse’s body had sores from the saddle.

Police said on Sept. 9, Hollingsworth told them about his plan and it was denied.

At this time, the horse is being temporarily held with Animal Care and Control.

Monday night, the mayor’s office issued the following statement.

“While the Illinois State Police (ISP) is directly leading all police matters around this incident due to the jurisdiction, Mayor Lightfoot has been briefed by the Chicago Police Department, who are assisting ISP. What is clear is that this stunt not only seriously endangered the horse but also the rider and all travelers on the expressway. There is a right way and a wrong way to call attention to issues of great importance and this stunt was decidedly the very wrong way. Furthermore, the Chicago Animal Care and Control (CACC) was on-scene arranging for the treatment of the horse which was injured as a result of this stunt and are now working to transport the animal to a temporary shelter where it can receive proper care.”

LINK:https://wgntv.com/news/chicago-news/dreadhead-cowboy-taken-into-custody-after-riding-horse-on-dan-ryan/

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He had a whole posse with him, custom motorcycles, cars etc blocking the road, that guy on the horse was just the lead, the attention getter.

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He was charged with reckless conduct, disobeying a police officer and criminal trespass.

The horse, who is called “NuNu,” had multiple injuries when animal control arrived. Police said it was bleeding from the left hoof, its right hoof was injured and the right side of the horse’s body had sores from the saddle.

How about adding animal cruelty charges, too!

Depending on how the horse was shod, cantering on pavement for a distance would be pretty hard on the horse's feet and legs. Saddle sores are pretty easy to avoid with any kind of proper care. It sounds like a case for animal cruelty could be made on this guy.

Dread head, fuck face or whatever his name is...
Nothing more than a piece of shit, attention seeking asshole.

Take a guess who's at the blm protests on his horse?
Take a guess who's got a handful of felony convictions?
Take a guess who the mayor has helping her out as the "census cowboy"?

Yep.... That asshole

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Originally posted by Gene Hillman:
Depending on how the horse was shod, cantering on pavement for a distance would be pretty hard on the horse's feet and legs. Saddle sores are pretty easy to avoid with any kind of proper care. It sounds like a case for animal cruelty could be made on this guy.

Was going to mention the same thing. However, cantering or galloping on asphalt, regardless how the horse was shod, will damage its hooves and potentially its legs. Horses are huge animals, but their legs are delicate and subject to injury from this sort of stupidity. Under no circumstances should he ever get that animal back.

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They’re calling for the mayor and governor to fund mental health, education and social programs and development in neighborhoods they said have been neglected.

He's a total AH..,.

they have been funding those areas. they simplky piss it away when everyone puts it right into their pockets.

Take a look at where the TWO HUNDRED MILLION Zuckerburg funded for Newark went?

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$50 million went to the teachers’ contract. The idea was to make teachers more accountable for student performance and to shed the teachers who were ineffective. I’m sure that the reformers feel that money helped kids, but if you look at the classroom level, it’s hard to see an effect yet. And $25 million went to expanding charter schools in Newark. Some of those charter schools are excellent, which is good for kids. There was $20 million that went to consultants who received, in general, a thousand dollars a day for carrying out various management reform efforts. There was this notion that consultants had the answers, and you could hire expertise, and pay for it at enormous prices, on the assumption that this was going to bring the magic answer, the silver bullet to Newark. And it was an enormous amount of money that went towards something that really didn’t have a lot of returns. I don’t think you could find any way that consultant money helped children.

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Originally posted by bigdeal:

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Originally posted by Gene Hillman:
Depending on how the horse was shod, cantering on pavement for a distance would be pretty hard on the horse's feet and legs. Saddle sores are pretty easy to avoid with any kind of proper care. It sounds like a case for animal cruelty could be made on this guy.

Was going to mention the same thing. However, cantering or galloping on asphalt, regardless how the horse was shod, will damage its hooves and potentially its legs. Horses are huge animals, but their legs are delicate and subject to injury from this sort of stupidity. Under no circumstances should he ever get that animal back.

There actually is a product called a boot which can be placed on each hoof to soften the work on pavement. I've never ridden horses on pavement so I don't have personal experience with them but I know they exist.I would think mounted patrols would use them like in New York City. It is probable that this person didn't have them on his horse and of course pavement isn't a natural surface for a horse.

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Originally posted by Gene Hillman:
There actually is a product called a boot which can be placed on each hoof to soften the work on pavement. I've never ridden horses on pavement so I don't have personal experience with them but I know they exist.I would think mounted patrols would use them like in New York City. It is probable that this person didn't have them on his horse and of course pavement isn't a natural surface for a horse.

Not familiar with the 'boot' you noted, but I am very familiar with horses and their inherent leg and hoof weaknesses. Personally, I don't think horses belong on hard surfaces at all, period. The Orlando Police Dept Mounted Unit uses a special horseshoe that has a somewhat soft rubber applied to the bottom of the shoe to try and soften the impact when on hard surfaces. And even with those shoes applied, OPD tries to keep their horses working short shifts when they're on pavement. You can bet this jackass had metal shoes (at best) on that horse.

This moron deserves a severe beating for what he did to that horse.

CPD,

Sent you a message.

concrete tough on that poor horses legs and feet.

JLJ- got it.
Check yours.


Well, Phather Phaker and the rest of the Idiots are chiming in.

“ Father Michael Pfleger and activist Ja’Mal Green called for authorities to release Adam Hollingsworth — better known as the Dread Head Cowboy — from police custody and drop charges against him for riding a horse on the Dan Ryan Expressway during Monday’s evening rush as a form of protest against kids getting shot in Chicago.

“I’m with the Cowboy 100% and I think these charges need to be dropped” Pfleger, who led 5,000 people onto the Dan Ryan in 2018 to protest violence, told the Chicago Sun-Times in a phone call Tuesday.

“I think we need to do a whole lot more disruption of shopping and traffic and business as usual until we deal with this violence.”


https://www.chicagotribune.com...ok3a4-htmlstory.html



Perfect idea! Let’s go and cause more mayhem, more disruption... what the hell, why not destruction all over the city.

Oh, wait, every where but the parts that the violence is in. Makes PERFECT sense!

I can’t wait till I can leave this shit-show.