In Chile, National Police Day is commemorated on April 28th. On National Police Day in 2024, the police commander was under active investigation for corruption. However, when three police were murdered in and burned in a truck staged beside a mural of a ceremonial Mapuche horse in the BioBio region, where the indigenous resistance is high, the charges of corruption were overturned. The Mapuche community was portrayed as terrorists, and the police commander portrayed as the hero. Video documentation shows the increased militarization of the region after the murders while the police chief and his men theatrically look for the assassins. “Chi Kawello Peib”, “The Horse is Witness: is graffitied on the mural under their nose by the community, signaling that the Mapuche horse is the only one to know the true authors of the immolation.