Alec Baldwin harassed by protester at coffee shop

Alec Baldwin was accosted by a protester while out getting coffee in New York and his response has gone viral. Watch video.

Alec Baldwin was caught on camera smacking the phone of an anti-Israel agitator who repeatedly demanded he say “Free Palestine” inside a New York City coffee shop, according to footage posted online.

The woman posted the video on her Twitter/X account on Monday night with the message “White devil Alec Baldwin attacked me while I was trying to get coffeee”.

But it was the woman who approached the actor while he appeared to be on the phone and at the cash register inside the shop and began to relentlessly harass him, the video shows.

White devil Alec Baldwin attacked me
While I was trying to get coffeee pic.twitter.com/qebME0V4Wl

— Crackhead Barney & Friends (@CHBAF) April 22, 2024

“Alec, can you please say ‘Free Palestine’ one time,” said the protester, who hosts an “anti-fascist” show called “Crackhead Barney & Friends.”

She continued to accost Baldwin, 66, before he went toward the door inside Maman cafe on University Place in Greenwich Village and motioned for her to get out, the video shows.

“Free Palestine, Alec, just one time, and I’ll leave you alone,” she said. “I’ll leave you alone, I swear.”

“Just say ‘Free Palestine’ one time, one time,” she pressed as he shook his head no and held the door open.

“F**k Israel, f**k Zionism,” she added.

The podcast host and performance artist, who goes by “Crackhead Barney” and is known for ambush interviews, also brought up Baldwin’s criminal case in New Mexico, where he’s facing a charge in the fatal shooting of cinematographer Halyna Hutchins on the set of Rust.

“Why did you kill that lady, you killed that lady and got no jail time,” the agitator claimed while calling him a “criminal.”

(L-R) Halyna Hutchins, Hannah Gutierrez-Reed, Alec Baldwin. Picture: Supplied

The 30 Rock star has pleaded not guilty to involuntary manslaughter, with a trial scheduled for July.

He was pointing a gun, which he believed was filled with blanks, at Hutchins during a rehearsal when the revolver went off. Hutchins was hit by a bullet and later succumbed to her injuries. The director, who stood near her, was wounded.

Movie weapons supervisor Hannah Gutierrez-Reed was sentenced earlier this year to 18 months in prison after she was convicted of involuntary manslaughter.

At one point during the coffee shop encounter, a worker tried to get the aggressor to stop, to no avail.

Screengrab of Alec Baldwin in a New York City coffee shop as he was taunted by a podcaster activist over the Rust killing of Halyna Hutchinson and the Israel-Hasa war. Picture: Twitter

Baldwin also appeared to ask the employee to call police during the verbal altercation.

The video cut out when Baldwin smacked the protester’s phone away after he appeared to ask the worker, “Can you do me a quick favour?”

The next day Crackhead Barney posted to her X account saying she had “no regrets” about the incident, that she got her phone back, and urged her followers to “STAY MAD”.

"Give me some room!" Crackhead Barney faced off with Andrew Giuliani outside of NYC Court house where Trump is right now.

Video by Olga Fe [e-mail] to license pic.twitter.com/VX0IoIsZGK

— Oliya Scootercaster 🛴 (@ScooterCasterNY) April 15, 2024

According to TMZ she hasn’t filed a police report, but there still may be some legal action on the horizon over the phone smack.

Her representative told TMZ she is currently consulting with lawyers to figure out her next steps.

She has also been seen protesting outside Donald Trump’s trial and at other demonstrations.

Photos later obtained by the New York Post show the scuffle continued outside as the woman, wearing a bra and shorts, jostled with Baldwin who was carrying coffee and car keys.

Originally published as Alec Baldwin harassed by protester at coffee shop