Protesters Accused of Hiding Police Body Camera, Punching a Horse, Appear in Court.

HOUSTON, TX -- Two women who were arrested last week during one of several anti-Trump protests last week, were in court Monday morning.

Shere Dore, 40 a vocal community activist, was arrested after she allegedly punched a police horse.

Prosecutors said Dore was blocking traffic in a street during the protest, and a mounted officer told her to get back on the sidewalk, but she refused.

Prosecutors said the officer then used his horse to push Dore onto the sidewalk and she punched the horse in the shoulder.

"As he pushed her with the horse, defendant Dore struck the police horse in the shoulder with a closed fist," prosecutor Gavin Ellis said in court.

Dore was in court Monday with Emily Garcia-Briones, another demonstrator who is accused of hiding a body camera that fell off an officer. The 22-year-old is charged with tampering with evidence.

Prosecutors said the women were part of a group of protesters marching toward Houston's City Hall that were confronted by mounted officers.

The demonstrators were in the street, not on the sidewalk, which is a violation of municipal code, prosecutors said.

Jolanda Jones, a former Houston City Council member representing Garcia-Briones, said charges are false.

“I want the world to know that our clients are absolutely innocent,”Jones said. “This is just the first indications of what’s going to happen with the new president.”

Meanwhile, Dore, who’d been free on bond since Thursday, was escorted back to jail after District Judge Jim Wallace increased her bond amount from $2,000 to $5,000.

Both women are charged with a third degree felony and could spend up to 10 years behind bars if convicted.

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