Alec Baldwin Defamed by "Rust" Arrest? | Crime Alert 6AM 08.12.25
Crime Stories with Nancy Grace
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🗓️ 12 August 2025
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Summary
Alec Baldwin’s countersuit tied to the fatal shooting on the film "Rust" back in court. A judge rules on whether the actor was defamed by the charges files against him in Halyna Hutchins death.
President Trump has announced that more than 500 federal officers from the FBI, DEA, ATF, ICE, and the U.S. Marshals Service are being sent to Washington, D.C., for at least a week.
The FBI’s latest Uniform Crime Report shows a major nationwide shift: violent crime fell by 4.5% in 2024, and property crime by 8%.
In Atlanta, a routine arrest turned violent at the city’s Five Points MARTA station.
In New York, the life of 46-year-old security guard Aland Etienne was honored in Brooklyn by hundreds of mourners.
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| 0:00.0 | Crime Alert. I'm Nancy Grace. Breaking Crime News Now. Charges filed and then dismissed against actor Alec Baldwin in the death of cinematographer Helena Hutchins. |
| 0:12.2 | Baldwin then sues the prosecutors, court officials, and others for defamation and abuse of process. |
| 0:20.0 | Man, he sure kicked a gift horse in the mouth. A judge has now |
| 0:24.6 | ruled in the case. What about it, John Limley? Well, Nancy Alec Baldwin's countersuit tied to that fatal |
| 0:31.5 | shooting on the film Rust has been dismissed. The New Mexico judge's ruling leaves Baldwin 30 days to refile. It was in |
| 0:40.5 | 2021 that cinematographer Helena Hutchins was killed when a gun Baldwin was rehearsing with fired a live |
| 0:48.2 | round. Criminal charges against the actor were dropped last year, but the film's armorer, Hannah Gutierrez-Reed, |
| 0:55.7 | was convicted of involuntary manslaughter and released this May after serving 13 months. |
| 1:02.3 | Hutchins' husband and family are still suing Baldwin and other producers alleging safety failures on the set. |
| 1:09.4 | Court records show Baldwin's deposition in that case has yet to be |
| 1:13.4 | rescheduled. President Trump has announced that more than 500 federal officers from the FBI, |
| 1:20.6 | DEA, ATF, ICE, and the U.S. Marshal Service are being sent to Washington, D.C. for at least a week. Their mission bolster local |
| 1:30.1 | law enforcement and, in the words of the President, restore safety to the streets. The plan also includes |
| 1:36.7 | removing unhoused people from public spaces and sending them to facilities outside the city. |
| 1:43.4 | The President said the measure was necessary to address what he called lawlessness in the capital. |
| 1:49.6 | But D.C. leaders point out that violent crime has already fallen by more than a quarter compared to last year, |
| 1:56.6 | with homicides and carjackings both trending downward. |
| 2:00.5 | Mayor Muriel Bowser says the city is |
| 2:02.9 | open to federal help, but objects to the prospect of National Guard troops or direct federal |
| 2:08.7 | control of local policing. She's urging the administration to instead fill vacant prosecutor |
| 2:14.9 | positions and judicial seats, post she says, are critical to sustain |
| 2:20.2 | safety. The coming week will test whether this surge in manpower strengthens the city's security |
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