{"id":1074437,"date":"2021-12-01T20:59:33","date_gmt":"2021-12-02T01:59:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1074437"},"modified":"2021-12-01T20:59:35","modified_gmt":"2021-12-02T01:59:35","slug":"alec-baldwin-the-trigger-wasnt-pulled-i-didnt-pull-the-trigger","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/alec-baldwin-the-trigger-wasnt-pulled-i-didnt-pull-the-trigger\/","title":{"rendered":"Alec Baldwin: The trigger wasn\u2019t pulled, I didn\u2019t pull the trigger"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">22<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Falec-baldwin-the-trigger-wasnt-pulled-i-didnt-pull-the-trigger%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1074437&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div id=\"attachment_2599385\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\">\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-2599385\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">EAST HAMPTON, NEW YORK \u2013 OCTOBER 07: Hamptons International Film Festival Chairman, Alec Baldwin attends the World Premiere of National Geographic Documentary Films\u2019 \u2018The First Wave\u2019 at Hamptons International Film Festival on October 07, 2021 in East Hampton, New York. (Photo by Mark Sagliocco\/Getty Images for National Geographic)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<h5>OAN Newsroom<br \/>UPDATED 5:41 PM PT \u2013 Wednesday, December 1, 2021<\/h5>\n<p>Another crew member from the set of the film \u201cRust\u201d filed a lawsuit over the fatal shooting of cinematographer Halyna Hutchins. According to the lawsuit filed in November by script supervisor Mamie Mitchell against Alec Baldwin, the movie\u2019s producers and directors claim the script never called for a gun to be fired.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><strong>\u201cI\u2019ll never forget what happened on the set of Rust that day,\u201d she stated. \u201cI relive the shooting and the sound of the explosion from the gun over and over again.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Mitchell, who made the 9-1-1 call, added that Baldwin should have checked the gun for live rounds himself, instead of relying on the assistant director. Attorney Gloria Allred, who is representing Mitchell, accused the actor of behaving recklessly when he fired the gun without examining it.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><strong>\u201cMr. Baldwin chose to play Russian roulette when he fired a gun without checking it and without having the armorer do so in his presence,\u201d said the the attorney. \u201cHis behavior and that of the producers on \u2018Rust\u2019 was reckless.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Allred reiterated there was nothing on the script about the gun being discharged. She stressed the film\u2019s producers and Baldwin failed to follow safety protocols.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><strong>\u201cWhy the gun was discharged, you know, the facts will have to fully come out,\u201d said the attorney. \u201cBut it was not because the scene that was to be filmed called for him to pick up a gun and discharge it, to cock the hammer of the gun and pull the trigger. It was not in the script.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<div id=\"attachment_2585439\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2585439\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2585439\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/AP21315001042843.jpg\" alt=\"A photo of cinematographer Helyna Hutchins is displayed before a news conference by attorney Gary Dordick and his client Serge Svetnoy, chief of lighting on the &quot;Rust&#039; film set, to announce a lawsuit against Alec Baldwin and others, Wednesday, Nov. 10, 2021, in Beverly Hills, Calif. Svetnoy filed the lawsuit over Baldwin&#039;s fatal shooting of cinematographer Halyna Hutchins on the New Mexico set of the Western, alleging negligence that caused him &quot;severe emotional distress&quot; that will haunt him forever. (AP Photo\/Damian Dovarganes)\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" \/><\/p>\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-2585439\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">A photo of cinematographer Helyna Hutchins is displayed before a news conference by attorney Gary Dordick and his client Serge Svetnoy, chief of lighting on the \u201cRust\u2019 film set, to announce a lawsuit against Alec Baldwin and others, Wednesday, Nov. 10, 2021, in Beverly Hills, Calif. (AP Photo\/Damian Dovarganes)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>The film\u2019s head of lighting, Serge Svetnoy, also filed a lawsuit against the producers, including Baldwin. The current suit seeks both compensation and punitive damages.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, Baldwin gave his <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ABC2020\/status\/1466098614305013774\">first interview<\/a> since the fatal accident.<\/p>\n<p>Baldwin sat down with ABC\u2019s George Stephanopoulos to discuss the incident. The actor broke emotionally when speaking of 42-year-old Hutchins.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cShe was someone who was loved by everyone who worked with her, and liked and admired,\u201d said Baldwin. \u201cIt wasn\u2019t in the script for the trigger to be pulled. Well, the trigger wasn\u2019t pulled. I didn\u2019t pull the trigger. Someone put a live bullet in a gun. A bullet that wasn\u2019t even supposed to be on the property.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In the meantime, the interview is set to air on Thursday.<\/p>\n<h4>MORE NEWS:&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.oann.com\/steve-bannon-pleads-not-guilty-to-contempt-of-congress-charges\/\">Steve Bannon Pleads Not Guilty To Contempt Of Congress Charges<\/a><\/h4>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>EAST HAMPTON, NEW YORK \u2013 OCTOBER 07: Hamptons International Film Festival Chairman, Alec Baldwin attends the World Premiere of National Geographic Documentary Films\u2019 \u2018The First Wave\u2019 at Hamptons International Film &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":79,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1074437","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1074437","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/79"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1074437"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1074437\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1074437"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1074437"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1074437"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}