Video: Alec Baldwin Confronted by Anti-Israel Protester, Reacts by Punching Camera – ‘Why Did You Kill that Lady?
Hollywood actor Alec Baldwin confronted by an anti-Israel protester, knocking her phone away in response to taunts about a past film shooting incident. The protester pressed him to say “Free Palestine” and accused him of a fatal shooting. Baldwin, facing trial for manslaughter, responded abruptly to the provocation in a video that went viral. Hollywood actor Alec Baldwin clashed with an anti-Israel protester, swatting her phone in reaction to provocations regarding a previous film shooting. The protester demanded him to proclaim ”Free Palestine” and blamed him for a deadly incident. Baldwin, amidst a manslaughter trial, swiftly reacted to the confrontation in a widely circulated viral video.
“Alec, can you please say ‘Free Palestine’ one time? Why did you kill that lady?” she asked Baldwin while he was at the counter of a coffee shop in New York City, according to the U.K. Daily Mail. (The report did not specify when the confrontation occurred, but the video was posted to social media Monday night.)
The woman then said to the 66-year-old, “You killed that lady and got no jail time. No jail time, Alec. No jail time, Alec.”
As the woman attempted to force Baldwin to slam Israel — while calling him a “f***ing criminal” — he could be heard telling a shop employee, “Call the police.”
The video was posted to X with the caption: “White devil Alec Baldwin attacked me
“While I was trying to get coffee.”
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White devil Alec Baldwin attacked me
While I was trying to get coffeee pic.twitter.com/qebME0V4Wl— Crackhead Barney & Friends (@CHBAF) April 22, 2024
Seconds after that, the woman put her phone close to the star and said “F*** Israel, f*** Zionism,” and Baldwin lost his cool.
The star, who is known for his temper, appeared to punch the phone and the video cut off from there.
Baldwin was either on his phone or pretending to be throughout the roughly one-minute encounter with the public heckler.
The clip that quickly racked up more than 5 million views on the social media platform X received a community-noted message:
“Alec Baldwin has not been convicted of any crime yet. Clearly he is being harassed in the footage, and depending upon what state he is in, he may be within his rights to remove the phone from his harasser. The post wording is also racist and will be reported.”
Contrary to the claims of the woman who filmed the video, Baldwin is not yet off the hook for the Oct. 21 shooting on the set of his Western film “Rust” that left Hutchins dead and film director Joel Souza wounded.
The film’s armorer, Hannah Gutierrez-Reed, is currently serving an 18-month prison sentence for manslaughter in the death of Hutchins.
Baldwin himself will be tried for involuntary manslaughter in July and has pleaded innocent to the charge.
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Jason Bowles, an attorney for Gutierrez-Reed, told ABC News last week he suspects Baldwin is very “nervous” about the trial, given his client’s sentence.
Bowles said, “He’s got very good attorneys, and I know they’re working hard on it, but I think he’s got to be nervous at this point.”
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