WASHINGTON — Images of a U.S. border agent on horseback appearing to whip a Haitian migrant were “horrible to watch” and unacceptable, White House press secretary Jen Psaki said on Monday.
“I don’t think anyone seeing that footage would think it was acceptable or appropriate,” she said at a press briefing.
A Reuters video showed a Border Patrol agent using what the news agency described as a lariat to whip at a Haitian migrant trying to enter the United States from Mexico. The El Paso Times reported Monday that an agent “swung his whip menacingly, charging his horse toward the men in the river.”
