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NYC activists’ carriage-horse threats prove they’ll use any excuse to force a ban

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Just hours after Deniz, a beautiful brown-and-white carriage horse, collapsed and died in Central Park June 9, the activists pounced.

Edita Birnkrant, executive director of the anti-carriage group NYCLASS, posted a video of Deniz in his final moments, lying on the carriage drive.

“They’re f—ing abusers,” a male narrator says.

 “He doesn’t care,” the observer declares of the carriage driver.

The video ends with a blaring political headline: “Pass Ryder’s Law Before Another Horse Is Killed.”

That’s the City Council bill, long pushed by NYCLASS, that would ban carriage rides in New York City — and force a largely immigrant workforce into unemployment.

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Birnkrant, along with activist groups like PETA and City Council Members Christopher Marte, Frank Morano and others, immediately used Deniz’s sudden death to push a narrative portraying carriage drivers as cold-hearted animal abusers.

Their rush-to-judgment propaganda sparked a barrage of hate directed at New York’s carriage drivers, 95% of whom have come to the US from countries around the world: Ecuador, Mexico, Brazil, Turkey, Tajikistan, Italy, Ireland, Poland and many more.

“Kill that f—ing immigrant,” read........

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