Baldwin denounced by the sisters and widow of a dead marine in Kabul- time.news

by time news
from Paolo Foschi

The three women accuse the actor of exposing them to hatred on social media with an Instagram post. They want $ 25 million in compensation


New legal troubles for Alec Baldwin, already involved in the investigation into the death of director of photography Halyna Hutchins on the set of the film Rust (the woman was killed by a bullet fired from a prop weapon held by the actor, while the director Joel Souza was injured). According to reports from the Ap news agency, la widow and two sisters of a US Marine killed in Afghanistan are suing Baldwin, claiming that the actor exposed them to a wave of hatred on social media. Baldwin allegedly wrote on Instagram that one of the sisters is an insurgent. The three women asked for $ 25 million in damages. The case linked to the tragic events of the assault on the Capitol, in Washington, on January 6, 2021, when Donald Trump supporters stormed the US Congress. According to the complaint filed with the district court in Cheyenne, Roice McCollum, precisely sister of the marine Rylee McCollum
killed in a suicide bombing in Kabul on August 26, 2021 along with 13 other American soldiers, would have protested peacefully and legally; she was not among the assailants of Congress and was never detained, arrested or charged with any crime.

Here is the reconstruction of the story. Baldwin sent McCollum a check for $ 5,000 last year to help his brother’s widow. On January 3 this year, according to the complaint, the actor sent a private message to Roice McCollum on Instagram after the woman had posted a photo of her at the demonstration asking her if it was the same woman who had taken her donation. The woman replied that it was perfectly legal to protest. Baldwin, according to what was written in the legal brief presented by the three women, would have replied by stating that the woman’s activities led to the illegal destruction of government property and allegedly attacked the state. The actor would later repost the photo to his 2.4 million followers on Instagram. Baldwin, according to the complaint, would have ignored the fact that the woman had denied having participated in the riots.

After Baldwin shared the photo from the January 6 protest on social media, Roice McCollum would have received hundreds and hundreds of hate messages, with threats of rape and death, which Baldwin himself on Instagram called repulsive. The wave of hatred would affect not only Roice McCollum, but also her sister Cheyenne McCollum and widow Jiennah McCollum, who for this have sued Baldwin for violation of privacy, defamation, negligence and intentional infliction of emotional stress. Jiennah McCollum gave birth to her late husband’s daughter in September. Online fundraisers received approximately $ 1 million for the widow and baby.

January 20, 2022 (change January 20, 2022 | 03:58)

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