A police horse is recovering after being hit by a stolen pickup truck in downtown Toronto last Friday.
As seen on a viral video taken on November 1, the pickup attempts to escape a mounted unit and in doing so hits one of the horses, several cars, and narrowly misses pedestrians before eventually crashing into a storefront. It looks like a scene from a movie as uniformed officers are seen chasing one of the thieves. One suspect was arrested at the scene and police arrested the second suspect a short distance away. Both occupants of the stolen vehicle have been charged with various offences including injuring an animal.
Fortunately, no one, including York, a four-year-old Clydesdale, suffered major injuries, although one officer was transported to hospital with non-life-threatening injuries. York has only been on the job for one year with the Toronto Police Service (TPS).