A Tragic Shooting On The Set Of 'Rust'

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🗓️ 25 October 2021

⏱️ 20 minutes

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Cinematographer Halyna Hutchins was killed in an incident last week involving a prop gun fired on the set of the film, “Rust.” It is unclear at the moment whether there will be any criminal charges stemming from this incident, but given reports of negligence, cutting corners, and lax safety standards, there will certainly be civil suits. Organizers at an Amazon facility in Staten Island plan to file for a union election today. Christian Smalls was fired after he organized a protest about safety conditions when he worked at the facility. Small is now the president of an independent group, the Amazon Labor Union, and joins us to discuss the news. And in headlines: “The Facebook Papers” revealed the degree to which Facebook employees knew of extremists on the site who were polarizing people, U.S. Border Patrol recorded the highest number of arrests ever at the Southern border, and researchers in Africa are attempting to reverse engineer the Moderna vaccine. Show Notes: NY Times: “Amazon Workers on Staten Island Aim for Union Vote” – https://nyti.ms/3B98QB5 NY Times: “The Amazon That Customers Don’t See” – https://nyti.ms/3vGGeOy For a transcript of this episode, please visit crooked.com/whataday

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0:00.0	It's Monday, October 25th. I'm getting a resident.
0:08.6	And I'm Josie Duffy-Race. And this is Weddeday, the official soundtrack to Hollow Week
0:13.6	after the monster mash.
0:15.4	Yeah, every single day we will introduce you to a new monster and that monster is the
0:20.5	news.
0:31.2	On Today's show, Amazon warehouse workers on Staten Island plan to unionize. Plus, new
0:36.8	reports detail how Facebook struggles to control misinformation around the world.
0:41.4	But first, in a tragic and by all accounts, preventable incident on the set of the film Rust
0:46.3	that happened last Thursday evening, cinematographer Helena Hutchins was killed and director Joel
0:51.4	Suza was injured in an incident that involved a prop gun that was fired by the actor Alec Baldwin.
0:57.3	It's leading to questions of who was ultimately responsible here and whether other productions
1:01.3	will immediately change how they use firearms. But before we get to all of that, Josie,
1:05.6	can you tell us more about this actual incident?
1:08.5	Yeah, it was just so tragic and surprising. So the incident occurred on the set of Rust,
1:14.2	a western movie filming in Santa Fe, New Mexico, though Baldwin fired the gun that led
1:19.4	to the death of Hutchins he was by all accounts not at fault for what transpired.
1:24.4	In the past days, there have been vigils in LA and in Santa Fe to mourn Hutchins who
1:28.5	was a talented cinematographer. Her husband and family, including her just nine-year-old
1:33.3	son, have expressed disbelief and sorrow over the shocking tragedy of her death. A Go
1:38.8	Fund Me established by the International cinematographer's guild has already raised
1:42.6	almost $200,000 for her family in just the past few days.
1:47.1	Yeah, it is so, so, so awful.
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