The remaining family of one Marine who died during the horrendously handled pullout of Afghanistan by the Biden administration has officially refiled a defamation suit targeting Alex Baldwin due to the social media posts labeling the sister of the fallen Marine as an “insurrectionist.”
The widow and sisters of Marine Lance Corporal Rylee J. McCollum previously slammed the troubled actor with a lawsuit within their home state of Wyoming but found the suit tossed out this past May due to lack of jurisdiction. This new case, however, has been filed with the Southern District of New York this past week once again by McCollum’s sisters, Roice and Cheyenne, and widow, Jiennah, and claims that the social media post from Baldwin calling Roice a January 6 “insurrectionist” ended up directly leading to her being threatened, as reported by FoxNews.com.
20-year-old McCollum was one of the 13 American service members that were killed as part of a suicide bombing next to the Kabul airport as the U.S. took steps to withdraw from Afghanistan just about a year ago. The bomber for this attack was a man who has just bee let go from prison.
Family of fallen Marine sues Alec Baldwin for social post accusing his sister of being an 'insurrectionist' https://t.co/rnjxCeM0Hc
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As stated in the lawsuit, Baldwin first reached out to the family with a $5,000 donation for Jiennah, who at the time was pregnant when her husband was killed. However, once Roice McCollum made the choice to post a picture of herself to social media while at the Trump rally that took place directly before the riot at the U.S. Capitol, Baldwin went off.
“Are you the same woman I sent the $ for your sister’s husband who was killed during the Afghanistan exit?” he questioned via an online message. “When I sent the $ for your late brother, out of real respect for his service to this country, I didn’t know you were a January 6th rioter.”
Roice McCollum shot back a retort to the left-wing actor by claiming that she had been well within her right to be there.
“Protesting is perfectly legal in the country and I’ve already had my sit down with the FBI,” she stated. “Thanks, have a nice day!”
Baldwin then wrote back, falsely claiming that the rioters at the event murdered a police officer and accused McCollum, who has not been charged with any crime at all and stands by her statement that she never went inside of the Capitol, of contributing to the overall damage done to the building.
“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 stated. “I reposted your photo. Good luck.”
McCollum issued the claim via the lawsuit that she immediately started to get “hostile, aggressive, [and] hateful messages” coming from the millions of people following Baldwin on social media.
