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
— Crackhead Barney & Friends (@CHBAF) April 22, 2024
While I was trying to get coffeee pic.twitter.com/qebME0V4Wl
“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.”
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.
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.
— Oliya Scootercaster 🛴 (@ScooterCasterNY) April 15, 2024
Video by Olga Fe Desk@freedomnews.tv to license pic.twitter.com/VX0IoIsZGK
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.
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