“When a SWAT guy and the horse went after my daughter and assaulted her, she started screaming,” Tina Richards, an activist with Grassroots America whose son returned from Iraq suicidal, told Big Head DC soon after her recent run-in with the Capitol police.

“I put my head out the window to yell at them to leave my daughter alone and they closed the window on my head,” she recalled. “I told the transport officer of the injury, but she said, ‘I’m sure you’d like people to believe that.’”

“I am so shocked by how the police reacted,” Richards added. “I never dreamed putting up a poster within lawful means would end up in getting my daughter and me assaulted by the police.”

When asked if she’s considered suing, she said she’s “looking at all possibilities.”