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Roice, however, claims that she was not among those who stormed the Capitol that day and that she was “never detained, arrested or charged with any crime”. Hence the lawsuit filed last Monday in the district court in Cheyenne. Cause, which comes as Baldwin is involved in the ongoing investigation into the death of the director of photography and the injury of a director last fall after a prop gun the actor was holding on the set of the film ‘Rust’ fired real shots.
The background
Last year, Baldwin sent McCollum a check for $ 5,000 to help his brother Rylee’s widow, who was among 13 US soldiers killed in a suicide bombing on August 26 at the Kabul airport. On January 3 of this year, the lawsuit says, the actor sent a private message to Roice on Instagram immediately after posting a photo of the Trump demonstration, in which she too appears, asking her if she was the same woman he had taken. his donation. According to the lawsuit, McCollum confirmed he was present at the protest and told Baldwin: ‘Protesting is perfectly legal.’
The lawsuit alleges Baldwin responded by noting that “his activities led to the illegal destruction of government property, the death of law enforcement, an assault on presidential election certification,” and told McCollum that he reposted the photo. to his 2.4 million followers on Instagram, although the woman told him she had never taken part in violent demonstrations. The consequences for Roice McCollum would have been a shower of insults and threats of all kinds, including that of death and even rape, both aimed at her and at her sister Cheyenne and the widow of the soldier,
Baldwin is then charged with breach of privacy, defamation, negligence and intentional infliction of emotional distress, for which he has been claimed damages amounted to more than $ 25 million.
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