Alec Baldwin whacked a phone out of the hand of the anti-Israel protester who was harassing him inside of New York City coffee shop.
The “Rust” star appeared to have been finishing up his order and was on the phone, when a woman repeatedly harangued him say “free Palestine.”
“Alec, can you please say, ‘Free Palestine’ one time?” she implored, before rapidly changing tactics to jabbing the notoriously volatile actor about the fatal shooting of “Rust” cinematographer Halyna Hutchins.
“Why did you kill that lady? You killed that lady and got no jail time,” the woman jeered. “No jail time, Alec. No jail time, Alec.”
Alec Baldwin gets harassed in public and punches the camera. Seems like the person filming him had it coming. pic.twitter.com/Ciyg2wO5nN
— Ian Miles Cheong (@stillgray) April 22, 2024
A store employee tried to get the woman to leave the shop, as Baldwin became visibly irritated and ended his phone call.
“You’re putting innocent people in jail, Alec Baldwin,” she continued. “Free Palestine, Alec. Just one time and I’ll leave you alone. I’ll leave you alone. I swear. Just say, ‘Free Palestine’ one time.”
Baldwin walked past the woman while giving her a dirty look, before holding the shop’s door open and telling her to “Get out right now,” as he pointed outside and refused to look at her.
The actor instructed the employee to “call the police,” as the woman was clearly verbally “harassing” him on the premises.
“One time. One time. One time, Alec,” she howled. “You know he’s a criminal. You know he’s a f***ing criminal. Come on Alec, just say, ‘Free Palestine’ one time. One time, just one time please and I’ll leave you alone.”
“No,” Baldwin responded with a disgusted shake of his head. “No.”
“Free Palestine. F*** Israel. F*** Zionism,” she continued. “Please say it. One time.”
The woman clearly wasn’t aware that Baldwin isn’t afraid to get punchy when pushed too far in public.
He cold-cocked a paparazzi in the nose in 1995, when the shutter bug got too close to his then three -day-old daughter, Ireland.
In 2011, he was asked to turn off his phone during a game of “Words With Friends,” and was kicked off the flight for slamming “the lavatory door so hard, the cockpit crew heard it and became alarmed.”
Baldwin was caught on camera hurling a gay slur at a cameraman in November 2013, was arrested five years later for punching a man in the face over a parking spot dispute.
When the woman escalated to screaming at the “Glengarry Glen Ross” star to say “Free Palestine. F*** Israel. F*** Zionism,” he lost his cool.
Baldwin let go of the door and headed back into the coffee shop, he sneakily edged closer to the woman while asking the barista if he could do him “one quick favor,” then smacked the phone out of her hand.
This wasn’t the first negative encounter he has had with the rash of anti-Israel protesters cropping up across the nation.
In December, another public display of disagreement saw Baldwin trapped in the middle of a pro-Palestine protest in Manhattan, where he lost his temper with a participant, telling him to “shut the f*** up” and getting confrontational before police intervention.
During the encounter, which was naturally caught on camera and went viral, a protester aggressively questioned Baldwin’s stance on Israel due to his Hollywood connection.
Now, the target is Alec Baldwin.
Apparently, no matter what your politics, you can never please the people who demand that you join a movement that they discovered only two months ago when Hamas terrorists massacred 1400 Israelis. pic.twitter.com/JAslZyRydI
— Joel M. Petlin (@Joelmpetlin) December 19, 2023
“Because I’m in Hollywood?” Baldwin snapped back. “You ask stupid questions. Ask me a smart question.”
The disagreement intensified, with Baldwin and the protester vocally sparring until law enforcement stepped in.
He once again found himself ridiculed by a crowd who was jeering at him about Hutchins death as he was escorted away by the police.
Amidst the commotion, someone from the crowd shouted, “Who the f**k do you think you are?” and “Go f**k yourself.”
“Shut the f*** up,” Baldwin retaliated as he was led away.
“Stop crying! Stop crying!” he hollered back. “I want peace for Gaza, though,” he added while pointing into the crowd.
As Baldwin was led away by the officers, a demonstrator referenced the shooting incident by while yelling, “You did kill someone though, right? You’re a murderer!”
Baldwin’s legal battle over the on-set shooting is slated for July 10, following the announcement of an involuntary manslaughter charge by a grand jury in January.
The actor has submitted a plea of not guilty to the accusation, with his legal representatives appealing to the court to discard the charges, claiming a biased grand jury process.
In a criminal trial stemming from the incident, Rust armorer Hannah Gutierrez-Reed received a sentence of 18 months in jail after her conviction of involuntary manslaughter in March.