{"id":760991,"date":"2020-07-21T07:17:47","date_gmt":"2020-07-21T11:17:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/?p=760991"},"modified":"2020-07-21T07:17:47","modified_gmt":"2020-07-21T11:17:47","slug":"shameless-injustice-no-criminal-charges-for-truck-driver-who-ran-over-and-killed-animal-rights-activist-regan-russell","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/?p=760991","title":{"rendered":"SHAMELESS INJUSTICE: No criminal charges for truck-driver who ran over and killed animal rights activist Regan Russell"},"content":{"rendered":"\t
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Regan Russell was standing at the entrance when she was run over and killed. The truck stopped for a few sets of lights, and then he accelerated and drove into her.<\/p>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/blockquote>\n\n

LISA POLEWSKI:<\/strong> Animal rights advocates are condemning the charge laid by Halton Regional Police against a transport truck driver in connection with the death of a protester outside of a pork processing plant in Burlington, Ont., last month. Regan Russell, a longtime animal rights activist, was killed during a Toronto Pig Save demonstration outside of the Fearman\u2019s Pork processing plant on June 19. The driver, a 28-year-old man from the area of North Perth, faces a charge of careless driving causing death.<\/p>\n

Halton Regional Police say their investigation included interviews of several witnesses, a technical reconstruction of the collision outside of the plant at Harvester Road and Appleby Line, and a review of video footage. Investigators also say there are no grounds to indicate it was an intentional act. Witnesses have said the 65-year-old activist was trying to give water to pigs inside of a trailer entering the meat processing facility shortly before she was hit.<\/p>\n

Anita Krajnc, co-founder of Toronto Pig Save, said the charge isn\u2019t strong enough to address what happened to Russell. \u201cWe\u2019re shaken by these weak, feeble charges on the part of the Halton police,\u201d Krajnc told Global News. \u201cThey do not amount to justice.\u201d The group is calling on Halton police to release the video footage of the incident, which Krajnc said shows the driver intentionally drove into Russell… Organizers with the Animal Save Movement will be holding a rally in front of Halton Regional Police headquarters in Oakville on Tuesday morning, urging police to reconsider the charges laid against the driver and release the video footage of the incident…<\/p>\n

\u201cHe knew the drill. We\u2019ve been doing vigils at Fearman\u2019s in Burlington for nine years. Trucks stop slowly and stop at the entrance. And Regan Russell was standing at the entrance when she was run over and hit by the truck. He had been stalled at the lights about 100 feet away and stopped there for a few sets of lights, and then he accelerated and drove into her. So we feel that criminal charges should have been laid because there\u2019s intent to harm”… The charges also come several days after the group launched a petition supporting Russell\u2019s family in their call for a coroner\u2019s inquest into her death…<\/p>\n

\u201cWe know that Regan\u2019s death is not something that happened as an isolated incident in and of itself,\u201d said Shane Martinez, criminal lawyer for Toronto Pig Save. \u201cThere\u2019s been numerous complaints in the past by people who were bearing witness at these vigils that they had almost been struck by transport trucks entering the facility. Complaints were made by members of the Animal Save movement to the company, and also to Halton Regional Police. \u201cUnfortunately, it seems as though those complaints were not acted upon to the fullest extent that they could have been, and then we see what happened here to Regan”. SOURCE…<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

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