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https://www.yahoo.com/news/nypd-seen-dousing-distressed-carriage-152554603.html

The crowd grew on Ninth Ave. and 45th Street in the Hell's Kitchen neighborhood of Manhattan after the horse collapsed and the driver of the carriage was seen whipping the animal with reins in an attempt to get it to stand back up.

“Get up! Get up! Get up! C’mon, get up,” the driver begged the horse, to the dismay of onlookers.

Kelvin Gonzalez told NBC New York that he watched the scene in horror.

“He started whipping and saying ‘Get up, get up. Like bro, don’t whip your horse, he obviously needs some water he, looked dehydrated,” Gonzalez said.
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Carriage horses have caused contentious debate in New York for years. Former Mayor Bill de Blasio vowed that one of his first acts in office would be to ban horse-drawn carriages. He was unsuccessful, but was able to sign the carriage horse relief bill into law, which makes it illegal for the horses to work in temperatures 90 degrees or hotter. Wednesday's high temperature was 87 degrees.

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It goes without saying that carriages did not exist in America prior to the colonial era.