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Speaker 1: Crime, alert, imancy, grace breaking crime is now charges filed

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Speaker 1: and then dismissed against actor Alec Baldwin in the death

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Speaker 1: of cinematographer Helena Hutchins. Baldwin then sues the prosecutors, court officials,

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Speaker 1: and others for defamation and abusive process man he sure

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Speaker 1: kicked a gift horse in the mouth.

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Speaker 2: A judge has now ruled in the case what About

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Speaker 2: It John linley Well Nancy. Alec Baldwin's counter suit tied

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Speaker 2: to that fatal shooting on the film Rust, has been dismissed.

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Speaker 2: The New Mexico judge's ruling leaves Baldwin thirty days to refile.

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Speaker 2: It was in twenty twenty one that cinematographer Helena Hutchins

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Speaker 2: was killed when a gun Baldwin was rehearsing with fired

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Speaker 2: a live round. Criminal charges against the actor were dropped

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Speaker 2: last year, but the film's armorer, Hanna Gutierra's reed was

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Speaker 2: convicted of involuntary manslaughter and release this May after serving

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Speaker 2: thirteen months. Hutchins's husband and family are still suing Baldwin

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Speaker 2: and other producers, alleging safety failures on the set. Court

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Speaker 2: records show Baldwin's deposition in that case has yet to

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Speaker 2: be rescheduled. President Trump has announced that more than five

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Speaker 2: hundred federal officers from the FBI, deaatf ICE, and the

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Speaker 2: US Marshall Service are being sent to Washington, d C.

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Speaker 2: For at least a week. Their mission bolster local law

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Speaker 2: enforcement and, in the words of the President, restore safety

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Speaker 2: to the streets. The plan also includes removing unhoused people

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Speaker 2: from public spaces and sending them to facilities outside the city.

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Speaker 2: The President said the measure was necessary to address what

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Speaker 2: he called lawlessness in the Capitol, but DC leaders point

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Speaker 2: out that violent crime has already fallen by more than

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Speaker 2: a quarter compared to last year, with homicides and carjackings

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Speaker 2: both trending downward. Mayor Muriel Bowser says the city is

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Speaker 2: open to federal help, but objects to the prospect of

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Speaker 2: National Guard troops or direct federal control of local policing.

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Speaker 2: She's urging the administration to instead fill vacant prosecutor positions

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Speaker 2: and judicial seats, posts she says are critical to sustain safety.

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Speaker 2: The coming week, we'll test whether this surge in manpower

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Speaker 2: strengthens the city's security or sparks new political conflict over

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Speaker 2: control of the nation's capital.

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Speaker 1: Thanks John for the latest crime and justice news. Go

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Speaker 1: our daily podcast Crime Stories. More crime and justice news

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Speaker 1: after this Now with the latest crime and justice breaking

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Speaker 1: news Crime Online John Limley.

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Speaker 3: The FBI's latest uniform crime report shows a major nationwide shift.

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Speaker 3: Violent crime fell by four point five percent in twenty

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Speaker 3: twenty four and property crime by eight percent. Murders and

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Speaker 3: non negligent manslaughters dropped fifteen percent, the steepest decline in decades,

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Speaker 3: bringing levels closer to where they stood before the pandemic.

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Speaker 3: The statistics also showed decreases in robbery, aggravated assault, and burglary.

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Speaker 3: But the data is not all positive. Hate crime remains

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Speaker 3: alarmingly high, only a slight one point five percent drop

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Speaker 3: from the year before, and the total still ranks as

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Speaker 3: the second highest in more than thirty years. Anless say

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Speaker 3: these numbers reflect complex dynamics, with improved community policing and

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Speaker 3: targeted intervention programs helping in some cities, while deep rooted

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Speaker 3: bias driven violence continues to resist national downward trends. In Atlanta,

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Speaker 3: a routine arrest turned violent at the city's five points mortestation.

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Speaker 3: Two transit police officers were attempting to detain twenty five

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Speaker 3: six year old Christopher Daniels for public urination when he

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Speaker 3: allegedly pulled a gun and opened fire. One officer was

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Speaker 3: shot in the arm and underwent surgery. The second officer

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Speaker 3: was grazed in the knee and temporarily lost hearing from

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Speaker 3: the gunfire, Daniels fled aboard a train, tossing his weapon

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Speaker 3: onto a station rooftop before slipping away. The firearm was

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Speaker 3: later recovered and Daniels was arrested in Birmingham, Alabama, after

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Speaker 3: a multi state manhunt. He faces charges of aggravated assault,

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Speaker 3: public indecency, and weapons violations. MARTA official stress that serious

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Speaker 3: crime on the system is down overall, noting this year

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Speaker 3: has seen no homicides, a stark contrast to years past,

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Speaker 3: but they say the shooting underscores the unpredictable risks transit

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Speaker 3: police face daily. In New York, the life of forty

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Speaker 3: six year old security guard Alan Etienne was honored in

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Speaker 3: Brooklyn by hundreds of mourners. Etien, originally from Haiti, was

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Speaker 3: killed while shielding others during a July twenty eighth shooting

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Speaker 3: at a Manhattan Office Tower. The attack left four people dead,

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Speaker 3: including Etienne, a veteran NYPD officer, an investment executive, and

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Speaker 3: a real estate employee. A fifth person was wounded before

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Speaker 3: the gunman took his own life. Friends, family, and co

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Speaker 3: workers say Etienne was a devoted father and grandfather who

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Speaker 3: always put others first. His union is calling for greater

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Speaker 3: recognition of private security personnel, noting that many like Etienne

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Speaker 3: are immigrants working long hours in dangerous conditions. He is

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Speaker 3: remembered as a man who not only guarded a building,

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Speaker 3: but who in his final moments, protected the lives of others.

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Speaker 1: Thanks John for the latest crime and justice news. Go

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Speaker 1: to crime online dot com and please join us for

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Speaker 1: our daily podcast, Crime Stories, where we do our best

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Speaker 1: to find missing people, especially children, and solve unsolved thomicides.

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Speaker 1: With this crime alert, I'm Nancy Grace.