{"id":311798,"date":"2021-07-29T22:26:09","date_gmt":"2021-07-29T19:26:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/man-accused-of-punching-horse-at-covid-protest-refuses-test\/"},"modified":"2021-07-29T22:26:09","modified_gmt":"2021-07-29T19:26:09","slug":"man-accused-of-punching-horse-at-covid-protest-refuses-test","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/man-accused-of-punching-horse-at-covid-protest-refuses-test\/","title":{"rendered":"#Man accused of punching horse at COVID protest refuses test"},"content":{"rendered":"

“#Man accused of punching horse at COVID protest refuses test<\/strong>”<\/p>\n

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A man accused of\u00a0punching a police horse\u00a0at an anti-lockdown protest in\u00a0Australia\u00a0will remain in jail after refusing a COVID-19 test.<\/p>\n

Kristian Pulkownik, 33, was arrested Saturday after he allegedly punched a police horse called Tobruk at the protest.<\/p>\n

Sydney police charged him with animal cruelty, joining an unlawful assembly, affray and failing to comply with a COVID-19 directive,\u00a0the Guardian reported<\/a>. \u00a0<\/p>\n

Pulkownik refused the COVID test in jail despite the fact that it is a requirement to app<\/a>ear in court. He therefore has not yet applied for bail since his arrest.<\/p>\n

The protest Saturday followed weeks of strict lockdowns in Australia as the delta variant has\u00a0driven up COVID-19 infections<\/a>\u00a0in the country. Many of the \u201cRally 4 Freedom\u201d protesters gathered unmasked.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Pulkownik was quickly identified after an image of him allegedly punching Tobruk was plastered across social media<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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A protester (L) tries to push away a police horse in Sydney on July 24, 2021, as thousands of people gathered to demonstrate against the city\u2019s month-long stay-at-home orders.<\/figcaption>
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Magistrate Mark Richardson read a note from Parklea Prison, where Pulkownik is being held, saying prison staff could not bring the suspect to the video link room because he refused the virus test.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cYour client is in custody and has been in the community and is a risk to others as he could be Covid-positive,\u201d the magistrate told barrister Hollie Blake. \u201cYour client is in isolation.\u201d<\/p>\n

Blake had claimed that prison staff were making it impossible for her to speak to her client,\u00a0Sky News Australia reported<\/a>. Richardson suggested Blake lodge a supreme court application if she continued to take issue with the situation and protocols.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The 10-year-old horse, who was fine following the incident, received an outpouring of support, with the New South Wales police reporting that people have sent gifts of \u201ccarrots, apples, licorice, chocolate and bunches of flowers.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cTobruk being extra spoilt by the yummy gifts today!!\u201d the police posted on Facebook. \u201cThank you. Thank you. Thank you.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

Pulkownik\u2019s next scheduled appearance will be on Aug. 11 when his lawyers will make a bail application.\u00a0\n <\/p><\/div>\n

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“#Man accused of punching horse at COVID protest refuses test” A man accused of\u00a0punching a police horse\u00a0at an anti-lockdown protest in\u00a0Australia\u00a0will remain in jail after refusing a COVID-19 test. Kristian Pulkownik, 33, was arrested Saturday after he allegedly punched a police horse called Tobruk at the protest. Sydney police charged him with animal cruelty, joining…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":311799,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/07\/australia-horse-punch-02.jpg?quality=90&strip=all&w=1200","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[70897],"tags":[113015,73563,20358,1545,1621],"class_list":["post-311798","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-7-29-21","tag-animal-cruelty","tag-australia","tag-coronavirus","tag-protests"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/311798","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=311798"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/311798\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/311799"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=311798"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=311798"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=311798"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}