Overview
- Police allege a 40-year-old rider accelerated into two mounted units on Elkhorn Avenue, Surfers Paradise, about 12:20 am Sunday, throwing a senior constable.
- Body-worn camera and bystander video capture the revving engine, the fall, a passerby grabbing a runaway horse's reins, and the arrest.
- The rider faces two counts of unlawfully injuring a police horse and one count each of driving without due care and driving under the influence.
- Police said the horses, Remington and Kokjoda, suffered minor leg injuries and are recovering at stables in Brisbane.
- The 58-year-old officer sustained a minor back injury, and the accused is due at Southport Magistrates Court on February 20.