Fairy Creek protester acquitted as judge says RCMP failed to read injunction
A B.C. Supreme Court justice has found that a script used by RCMP during Fairy Creek arrests was insufficient, acquitting a man who faced a charge of contempt for contravening an injunction.
Ryan Henderson was arrested Oct. 20, 2021, on the Granite Mainline Forest Service Road as he took part in a protest against logging in the Fairy Creek watershed.The injunction order RCMP is authorized by an injunction order to arrest and remove people — with knowledge of the order — who are contravening its terms, Justice Douglas Thompson said in his decision.
It did not contain “sufficient information about the terms of the injunction order and the information that was delivered via this script was not accurate and clear,” Thompson said. Proof of actual knowledge of the order is required before someone can be convicted of contempt of the order, Thompson said.
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