The chief of police of a city of the state of Texas apologized after the outrage that generated a photograph in which two white agents, mounted on horseback, escort a black man handcuffed and held with a rope.

The image spread virally on the Internet, where it generated a wave of rejection for evoking the era of slavery and lynching for racial reasons .

Under normal circumstances, the suspect, named Donald Neely, arrested and handcuffed for property violation, should have been transferred to the police station in a patrol car.

However, at the time he was arrested, only mounted police officers were available , Galveston police chief Vernon Hale said Monday afternoon.

Hale justified the technique employed by the police as one that is taught to the officers, but acknowledged however that it was "a bad decision" in a statement posted on Facebook.

"We are in 2019, not in 1819," said James Douglas, president of the Houston chapter of the NAACP, the first organization created to defend the rights of blacks in the United States, cited by the newspaper 'Houston Chronicle'.

"A black man dragged by a rope by two police officers on horseback, in 2019 (...) We must denounce this for what it is: racism in full," the Democratic candidate to the Presidency Beto O wrote on his Twitter account 'Rourke.

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