A man was arrested early Sunday after Austin (Texas) Police said he burned a police horse with a cigarette on East Sixth Street after the bars had closed.
An officer said he saw a man, later identified as 23-year-old Tyrone Branch Jr., take a lit cigarette and burn the right side of his police horse, Drago, between the neck and head. The horse moved his head violently.
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