Comment on Alec Baldwin's Rust Case Is Over, Prosecutor Drops Manslaughter Appeal

• realcaseyrollins@thelemmy.club ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  I mean he shot that woman and killed her as far as I know, are there more details I’m not aware of?

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  • ursakhiin@beehaw.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Ah. Ok. I mean, I’m of the opinion that he has every reason to believe he wasn’t going to shoot her when he pulled the trigger.

    But I just wasn’t sure if you were misunderstanding the headline or if you were in the camp of punish everybody all the time.

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    • realcaseyrollins@thelemmy.club ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      That’s true, it sort of seems like negligent homicide to me.

      en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manslaughter

      I always thought that killing someone, even on accident, is against the law.

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      • ursakhiin@beehaw.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        Personally, I just don’t think Baldwin is the one who deserves the charge. There were people on set responsible for ensuring his gun wasn’t loaded. Those people failed in their job.

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  • TachyonTele@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    There are, yes. Unfortunately no one has written any articles about it, and multiple people haven’t gone to court over the situation either. It’s really too bad, it’s just a big black hole of information.

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  • 4am@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    It was on a movie set where it is to be reasonably expected that the armorer will clear weapons to be safe on set and that actors aren’t expected to be firearms experts so that they are able to perform with them.

    It should also be expected that said armorers do their job as expected and NOT shoot real ammo out of prop guns. And if they do, they’re expected to properly clear them; even though they never should in the first place.

    But yeah, this was totally about Alec Baldwin the elite bourgeois flexing his real ultimate power of wealth and crushing the matter-nothing proletariat, the people have lost once again because he was not held accountable for someone else’s actions.

    I’m all for eating the rich but let’s not just make shit up, that makes us look ridiculous.

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    • realcaseyrollins@thelemmy.club ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      A really cheesy way to put it but I generally agree. However I don’t think that Alec Baldwin pressured the prosecutor to back off, I think the prosecutor didn’t want the smoke from other entities like Baldwin’s managers or business partners, or Alec Baldwin’s fans

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