Alec Baldwin lost his temper as a fan asked him to say “Free Palestine” while he was out to grab a cup of coffee in a New York City coffee shop.
The incident took placewhen Alec Baldwin was out on a regular stroll and stopped for a coffee. He was dressed casually.
A video of the incident has now gone viral. The video was posted on Monday night. He can be seen on the phone while waiting at the cash register as the woman walked towards him and asked him to say “Free Palestine”.
The person asked the actor, “Alec, can you please say Free Palestine one time.” After she asked him peacefully the first time, the women then hounded him and demanded he say it. But Alec denied giving her a response and tried to avoid getting into any kind of scuffle.
Watch the viral video here:
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 asked the woman to leave the coffee shop and leave him in peace. When the woman didn’t budge and kept repeating that he chant “Free Palestine”, he smacked her phone out of her hand. He remained visibly irritated with the encounter. All this while, she also brought up his criminal case in New Mexico over the death of cinematographer Halyna Hutchins who died a tragic death on the sets of his film Rust. She was heard saying, “Why did you kill that lady? You killed that lady and got no jail time? F*** Israel, f*** Zionism,” the woman said.
The video of the same was posted on the X platform by a user named Crackhead Barney & Friends. The caption of the video reads, “White devil Alec Baldwin attacked me while I was trying to get coffee.”
As for the case, Alec Baldwin is facing charges for the fatal shooting of Halyna Hutchins on the New Mexico sets of Rust. He was indicted for involuntary manslaughter in January, and his criminal trial is set to begin on July 10.
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