A POLICE officer who was badly hurt when her horse bolted during a Black Lives Matter protest is suing the Met for more than £200,000.
PC Nicky Vernon, 47, suffered a punctured lung, a head injury and fractures to her spine, ribs and collar bone when she was thrown from the saddle as thugs hurled flares and fireworks.
AFPA police officer who was badly hurt in a fall during a protest is suing the Met[/caption]
AFPThe officer was thrown from the saddle as thugs hurled flares and fireworks[/caption]
PC Nicky Vernon was in hospital for eight days
She has now filed a High Court negligence case claiming 14-year-old chestnut gelding Rocky had a known history of unsafe behaviour.
PC Vernon was in hospital for eight days and is still being treated for post traumatic stress and anxiety.
She also alleges the Met broke its own crowd control rules.
She claims the force “exposed her to a foreseeable risk of injury” by sending her and her mounted colleagues into a violent and densely packed crowd.
Violence erupted in June 2020 when more than 130,000 people protested in London’s Whitehall, after US police killed George Floyd.
The Met has yet to publicly file a defence.
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