Lawsuit noted Baldwin donated $5,000 in honor of the Marine killed in Afghanistan, but after actor publicly said Marine’s sister was at the Capitol on Jan. 6, family said they “suffered…
They claimed Baldwin was in the wrong when he noticed Roice posted something on Instagram in early January 2022 to mark the one-year anniversary of the Jan. 6 riot and responded with a post that read, “Are you the same woman that I sent the $ to for your [sister-in-law’s] husband who was killed during the Afghanistan exit?”
According to Roice’s lawyers, the post led to a wave of threats and vitriol from Baldwin’s followers. “Mr. Baldwin’s public post on his own Instagram feed cannot reasonably be considered expressly aimed at Wyoming given Mr. Baldwin’s ‘2.4 million Instagram followers,’” U.S. District Judge Nancy D. Freudenthal wrote in her decision.