The service horse was injured when the woman pushed a bike into the path of the horse. Service horses, trained to work with rowdy crowds (including non-stop honking), are very likely trained to injure themselves before stepping on an animal or person. The woman has been charged with injuring a service animal.
Fox News claimed that she was dead, and that mis-information quickly circled the plane. There was an awful lot of false information coming from the protest organizers and specific foreign news throughout the occupation.
Fox News is source of mis-information. It appears that this reporter wanted to agitate the protesters and create more conflict. In my opinion, some people were excited to watch civil unrest.
"However, rumours on social media quickly sprang up claiming a woman had been trampled by one of the horses — potentially to death.
In one instance, a Fox News contributor with 1.3 million followers tweeted that she heard a woman may have been "seriously injured or killed."
She tweeted an apology on Saturday for sharing false information — but her original post had already been amplified widely.
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This isn’t the first time Sara Carter [
@FoxNews, Contributor, Award-winning correspondent] has made an outlandish claim and had to backpedal."
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/otta...-misinformation-campaign-police-say-1.6358308
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Fox News contributor Sara Carter has walked back her entirely fictitious claim about a woman dying after being trampled by a Canadian authority on horseback amid ongoing trucker-led protests.
While the claim wasn’t accurate, the tweet was red-meat for her over 1.3 million conservative Twitter followers, who quickly amplified the baseless death as evidence of Canadian government wrongdoing.
“Reports are the woman trampled by a Canadian horse patrol just died at the hospital ... #Trudeau #FreedomConvoyCanada,” Carter
tweeted Friday evening.
Shortly thereafter, conservatives picked up and amplified the tweet, including former Fox Nation hosts Diamond and Silk and Republican Senator
Ted Cruz (R-TX).
On Saturday morning,
attempting to do clean-up, the Fox News contributor admitted her reporting was false."
Fox News Contributor Admits to Creating Fake Story About Canadian Woman Being ‘Trampled’ to Death