Wed Sep 27, 2023 – 8:28 pm EDT
WINDSOR, Ontario (LifeSiteNews) – Charges against a retired Canadian truck driver arrested for allegedly obstructing traffic during the 2022 Freedom Convoy protests in Ottawa were dropped by the Crown after he donated to a cat shelter.
The Democracy Fund (TDF) announced via a press release last Friday that charges of mischief and disobeying a court order against Benjamin Lockstein “were withdrawn” in a Windsor, Ontario, courtroom on September 14 after his “$500 donation to a cat shelter.”
According to the TDF, Lockstein’s charges were dropped as part of what is known as “alternative measures,” which allows “an adult person alleged to have committed and offence” to be given a way out to avoid admitting guilt or having a permanent criminal record.
Lockstein’s lawyer, Alan Honner, said he believes that his client would have been “acquitted had he proceeded to trial.”
The TDF said that Lockstein was arrested “during the protests while he was walking on the grassy median between northbound and southbound traffic on Huron Church Road.”
“The crown would have had to establish, beyond a reasonable doubt, that Lockstein obstructed, interrupted or interfered with traffic prior to his arrest,
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