"Criminalizing people for rescuing suffering animals is a moral failure, Phoenix wrote. Compassion is not a crime. When individuals step in to save a life because the system has looked the other way, they should be supported not prosecuted. We have to decide who we are as a society: one that protects the vulnerable, or one that punishes those who try."
"In addition to circulating the statement to media outlets, DxE posted it on Facebook and Instagram. By 3 p.m. Monday, the post had been shared more than 1,800 times, and had attracted nearly 2,000 comments, most of them supportive of Phoenix's message. Carla Rodriguez, the Sonoma County district attorney, said her office had not heard directly from the actor, and she had not spoken to him."
Joaquin Phoenix released a statement through Direct Action Everywhere urging the Sonoma County District Attorney to prosecute Perdue Farms' Petaluma Poultry facility for years of documented cruelty instead of focusing on activists. Phoenix wrote that criminalizing people who rescue suffering animals is a moral failure and that compassion is not a crime. DxE posted the statement on Facebook and Instagram, where the post drew more than 1,800 shares and nearly 2,000 mostly supportive comments by midafternoon. District Attorney Carla Rodriguez said her office had not heard directly from Phoenix. Zoe Rosenberg, a 23-year-old UC student and DxE investigator, was convicted Oct. 29 of felony conspiracy and three misdemeanors for a 2023 incursion and faces sentencing Dec. 3 with up to four years possible.
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