Alec Baldwin Dodges Reporters
By Thom Weidlich for PRCG | Haggerty LLC
The tragic film-set shooting involving Alec Baldwin is back in the news because prosecutors say they will criminally charge the actor in the death of cinematographer Halyna Hutchins. An incident connected to the news raises a crisis question: When is it okay to give reporters the slip?
Prosecutors announced Jan. 19 they would charge Baldwin with involuntary manslaughter for shooting the prop gun that killed Hutchins on the New Mexico set during the October 2021 filming of the movie Rust.
The New York Post reported that, the morning after that announcement, Baldwin’s wife, Hilaria, appeared outside their New York City apartment building and said she would speak to the journalists gathered there, hungry for comment on the saga’s latest development.
‘Decoy Statement’
But instead of speaking to the potential criminal charges, she launched into a tirade about reporters harassing her family. As she did this, her husband “slipped out of a side door and into a van that had been idling for him on their street,” according to the Post, which was not amused at what it called her “decoy statement.”
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