Posted on 01/19/2022 3:36:21 PM PST by CedarDave
The family of a U.S. Marine killed in a suicide bombing in Afghanistan is suing Alec Baldwin for allegedly mislabeling his sister as a participant in the Capitol riot Jan. 6, 2021.
Baldwin is named in a lawsuit seeking $25 million and alleging defamation, invasion of privacy, negligence and intentional infliction of emotional distress.
The lawsuit stems from a post that Baldwin shared on Instagram earlier this month after he gave $5,000 to the widow of a fallen soldier to help her with their newborn daughter. Marine Lance Cpl. Rylee J. McCollum was killed Aug. 26 in Kabul in a suicide bombing as he was processing refugees amid the United States’ controversial withdrawal from the country.
When the actor heard of McCollum’s story, he reached out to McCollumn's sister, Roice, and gave her $5,000 to give to her brother’s widow. He later called the check a "tribute to a fallen soldier."
According to the lawsuit, Roice was among the protestors who showed up to the march. However, the court documents reveal that she did not take part in the rioting nor any unlawful activity. Roice was interviewed by the FBI and cleared of any wrongdoing.
Despite never being charged with any crime, ... Baldwin labels her a "rioter. Your activities resulted in the unlawful destruction of government property, the death of a law enforcement officer, an assault on the certification of the presidential election." Baldwin went on to call Roice an "insurrectionist" to his 2.4 million Instagram followers in a since-deleted post.
Roice and her family say they were inundated with hateful comments shortly after the post went public. The court documents offer examples of some of those comments, the most disturbing from someone who said, "Get raped and die, worthless c--- [kiss emoji]. Your brother got what he deserved."
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The court documents state "Baldwin's conduct was negligent and reckless as he should have known that making the allegations he did against plaintiffs to his millions of followers would cause plaintiffs harm."
"Baldwin's comments were false, outrageous, defamatory, irresponsible, vindictive and caused – and continue to cause — plaintiffs severe emotional distress. Instead of being able to focus on grieving LCPL McCollum's death and raising his newborn daughter, plaintiffs and their family are now fearful for their lives."
Another case of Alec Baldwin shooting his mouth off. Someday, his mouth and/or his trigger finger will get him in trouble.
Open foot, insert mouth.
That’s how I feel about Baldwin. If you get my drift.
And maybe the dumbest azzhole on the planet.
Hurry up and grab what’s yours before there’s nothing left of the idiot’s money 🤪
Good.
Hopefully the family of the cinematographer he shot sues him for 100 million.
Play-actors. They deserve to be sued into oblivion. Almost all of them.
Surprise! Most of those who choose to ‘follow’ a person like Alec Baldwin online are nasty, rude, unsympathetic and obnoxious just like Alec. Like attracts like.
Baldwin is a notorious fathead.
Smart Alec pulled the trigger, again.
“”he reached out to McCollumn’s sister, Roice, and gave her $5,000 to give to her brother’s widow.””
That doesn’t make any sense. How did he know about the sister; how did he know how to contact her? He would give $5,000 to someone he didn’t know and then condemn that person’s actions? Was this before or AFTER he killed the lady in the desert? Was it to make himself look good?
Smart family. They may get a judgement before Alec is even charged over killing his cinematographer.
Dudes a psycho.
Oooo… that’s going to leave a mark!
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Baldwin labels her a "rioter. Your activities resulted in the unlawful destruction of government property, the death of a law enforcement officer, an assault on the certification of the presidential election." Baldwin went on to call Roice an "insurrectionist" to his 2.4 million Instagram followers in a since-deleted post.
Why would he give $5,000 to someone he considered an insurrectionist?
The publicity he’s managed to squeeze out of being a high profile public asshole has obviously outweighed the negative blowback-—it has just fed his ego and his self-curated narrative as a “passionate “Liberal”. It was bound to have turned REAL sour eventually and the events of the last few months have turned the corner of Alec Baldwin, and his “sustainability”.
However, on Jan. 3, Roice shared a photo on Instagram that clearly gave Baldwin second thoughts about his tribute.
The image showed her at the Washington Monument on the day of the insurrection in 2021. According to the lawsuit, Roice was indeed among the protestors who showed up to the march. However, the court documents reveal that, while she was protesting the vote certification of Joe Biden that day, she did not take part in the rioting nor any unlawful activity.
IOW, typical liberals
I found this confusing as well.
Is there an extradition treaty in place with France?
He’ll be there soon if not.
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