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Donkey Of The Day: Assistant Director On Alec Baldwin's 'Rust' Movie Admits To Gun-Safety Mistakes

Donkey Of The Day: Assistant Director On Alec Baldwin's 'Rust' Movie Admits To Gun-Safety Mistakes

Released Tuesday, 9th November 2021
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Donkey Of The Day: Assistant Director On Alec Baldwin's 'Rust' Movie Admits To Gun-Safety Mistakes

Donkey Of The Day: Assistant Director On Alec Baldwin's 'Rust' Movie Admits To Gun-Safety Mistakes

Donkey Of The Day: Assistant Director On Alec Baldwin's 'Rust' Movie Admits To Gun-Safety Mistakes

Donkey Of The Day: Assistant Director On Alec Baldwin's 'Rust' Movie Admits To Gun-Safety Mistakes

Tuesday, 9th November 2021
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0:03

It's time for donkey other day. Democrat

0:08

to being donkey of the day, a little

0:10

bit of a mixed so like a dope the

0:13

other day.

0:17

Now I've been called a lot of my twenty three years.

0:20

That donkey of the day is a new wife. Wow,

0:22

donkey today for Thursday October to

0:25

the assistant director of the movie Russ,

0:27

David Halls. Now, if you haven't heard because

0:30

you're busy, it's understandable. But

0:32

there was a tragic, senseless murder on

0:34

the set of the movie Russ when actor Alec Baldwin

0:37

accidentally shot dead cinematographer

0:39

Helena Hutchins. Okay, rest

0:41

in peace to her, sending her family healing energy,

0:43

and won't get the director on the

0:45

set of the Western film Russ. Now, accidents

0:48

happen, Tragic accidents

0:50

happened, and this was a tragic accident. But when

0:52

you find out these situations probably could have

0:54

been prevented. But someone,

0:56

namely David Halls, was irresponsible.

0:59

Oh see, you heard

1:01

Queen able to do They on the breafat Club last Hour and she

1:04

spoke on the safety precautions and protocol that

1:06

go along with checking a gun on set. Let's

1:08

listen. But the reason why I don't have

1:10

guns on my set is because during summer, the proper

1:12

protocol was done. The director has to check

1:14

the gun and so the armorer has

1:16

it first. A D has it first, Assistant

1:18

director. Everybody looks at and they bring it over to

1:20

me to look at. And I remember looking at it

1:22

was like, I don't even know what I'm looking I

1:25

said, I don't and I and in that moment, I said, I don't

1:27

know what I'm looking at. I can't keep this crew

1:29

safe. I don't know what I'm looking at. I had to depend on other people

1:32

to tell me if it's safe. Proper

1:34

protocol is the director has to check the

1:36

gun. She said, the a D has to check

1:38

it. A D would be David Hall in

1:41

this case, also the director would

1:43

have to check it. I don't know if the director checked it because

1:45

in this case the director got shot.

1:48

But we do know, okay that

1:50

in this case the checking of the gun did go to

1:52

David Hall. Well, David Hall dropped

1:54

the ball is clear. Not all safety

1:56

protocols will follow it on set and David

1:58

admitted to it. Let's go to see be see with sheperd

2:00

spit report police assistant director

2:03

who handed Alec Baldwin that loaded

2:05

gun on the movie set, admitted

2:07

to investigators that he didn't check the

2:09

revolver carefully enough. Investigators

2:11

say when they asked the armor about live

2:14

ammo on the set, she responded,

2:16

no live ammo is ever kept on set.

2:19

But today the Santa Fe County Sheriff

2:21

said it appears it was a

2:23

real bullet in Baldwin's revolver

2:25

that killed the film's cinematographer.

2:28

It struck her in the chest, according to investigators,

2:30

before hitting the director who was standing behind

2:32

her. The district attorney says she will

2:35

prosecute if there's evidence of

2:37

a crime, but she says right now it's

2:39

too early to determine whether anyone will

2:41

face charges. New court documents revealed

2:43

an interview with assistant director David

2:45

Halls and armorer Hannah Gutierrez,

2:47

who told investigators that on that day

2:50

she checked the dummies referring to

2:52

the ammunition and ensured they

2:54

were not hot rounds. She described

2:57

locking up the firearms and is safe during

2:59

a break, but during lunch, she stated

3:02

the AMMO was left on a cart on the

3:04

set, not secured. Halls

3:06

told investigators when Hannah showed him

3:08

the firearm before continuing rehearsal.

3:10

He could only remember seeing three rounds.

3:13

He advised he should have checked all of

3:15

them, but didn't and couldn't recall

3:17

if she spun the drum.

3:20

I mean, you know, one time is an accident, but this

3:23

happened before. Guess what. David

3:25

Hall was fired in twenty nine when he when he was an

3:27

assistant director on the movie Freedom's Path,

3:30

a gun unexpectedly discharged

3:32

and during a sound crew member the production

3:35

company Rocket Soul Studios told CNN

3:37

that I remember when David said, she doesn't want

3:39

guns on our set because he doesn't even know what she's

3:41

looking at. Clearly, David Hard doesn't know

3:43

what he's looking at either. Thank god the crew

3:45

member wasn't killed. And at the time, David

3:48

Hall was very remorseful for the events and

3:50

understood the reasons he was fired.

3:52

Well, clearly he didn't learn from that mistake two

3:54

years ago. The best apology has always changed

3:57

behavior. But two years later, David, what

3:59

did you change? Okay, what did you adjust?

4:01

If two years ago your negligence called someone

4:03

to get shot in two years later, your negligence

4:05

called someone to get shot and killed, And clearly

4:08

you are not learning from the lessons life is teaching

4:10

you. Okay, I want to know why is

4:12

there live ammunition period on these sets?

4:15

Like why why are there live

4:17

ammunition on set at all? For what? Somebody please

4:19

call me to the reasons why you know?

4:21

I don't know. But David Hall, you

4:24

got blood on your hands in a real, real way,

4:26

al right. The fact you said you have showed the gun

4:28

before rehearsal. You can only remember seeing

4:30

three rounds, and you admitted you should have checked all

4:32

of them but didn't, and you couldn't

4:34

recall if you spun the drum.

4:37

This is a prime example of when someone's irresponsibility

4:40

becomes your responsibility because someone

4:42

is dead, another is shot, and

4:45

this isn't the first time. Is in the

4:47

first time David has been a serresponsible and

4:49

caused something like this to happen. I'm not here to

4:51

judge, I'm not here to prosecute. I'm just here

4:53

to remind you all of this quote by George

4:56

Matthew Adams. Negligence

4:59

is that the body of all DK and

5:01

DKA always starts by showing little

5:03

signs, all warnings. There is nothing

5:06

quite so easy as to neglect, and

5:08

nothing quite so difficult as

5:11

to repair that negligence. Negligence

5:13

always carries a high price. It

5:15

costs nothing to avoid it. Please

5:18

let me remind give David all the biggest he hare

5:20

heha he ha. You

5:22

stupid mother, are you dumb? All

5:26

right? Well, thank you for that donkey of the day. That

5:29

sad, sad case of events,

5:31

very sad. Alright, it's the Breakfast Club.

5:33

Good morning.

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