Alec Baldwin's tense scuffle with troll who berated him in coffee shop over Rust shooting and Palestine

The bizarrely-dressed troll who harassed Alec Baldwin at a coffee shop is a performance artist known for outrageous stunts.

The woman, known as Crackhead Barney, has ambushed people on the street and public events while wearing zany costumes since at least 2020.

She has popped up everywhere from Trump rallies to Israel or Palestine protests, abortion marches, and last week tormented Andrew Giuliani outside the Trump trial.

Her persona comes from early skits in 2021 when she accosted random tourists in NYC while wearing a Barney the Dinosaur costume from the children's TV show.

However, the costume arrived from Amazon with one of its eyes missing, prompting people to call her 'crackhead Barney' in her videos, and it stuck.

Crackhead Barney harassed actor Alec Baldwin in a New York City coffee shop, then followed him outside grabbing his arm as they walked through the door at the same time

A furious-looking Baldwin stops in the doorway attempting to get away from her

Baldwin holds his keys out in front of him as she snatches at them, and then moves it away as she reaches for them

Crackhead Barney's most recent video shows her harassing Baldwin at a NYC coffee shop, insisting he say 'Free Palestine' until he smacked her phone away.

'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,' she said, calling him a 'white devil'.

A coffee shop employee tried to ask her to stop quibbling with Baldwin, as the actor walked towards the door and asked her to leave.

'Why did you kill that lady? You killed that lady and got no jail time,' the protester said referencing the fatal Rust set shooting of cinematographer Halyna Hutchins.

Baldwin's criminal trial for the shooting is set to begin on July 10, after a grand jury indicted him for involuntary manslaughter in January.

As Baldwin left the coffee shop, she followed him outside grabbing his arm as they walked through the door at the same time. 

Crackhead Barney confronts Andrew Giuliani outside the Donald Trump hush money trial last week, dressed as Barney the Dinosaur, minus the head

The exchange between Giuliani and the 'Hamas whore' protester grew increasingly unhinged until NYPD cops escorted her away

Her exchange with Giuliani, son of disgraced former NYC mayor Rudy Giuliani, wasn't the first time the two have squared off.

Crackhead Barney got into a screaming match with him in June 2021 as he was campaigning for Governor of New York in Times Square.

Even almost three years apart, the 'interview' was largely about the same topic: Israel and Palestine.

Last week she called him a 'terrorist' for supporting Israel despite the death's of more than 20,000 civilians during its campaign against Hamas.

'I'm a gay, homo, Hamas w**re,' she said at one point.

Crackhead Barney's most recent video shows her harassing Baldwin at a NYC coffee shop, insisting her say 'Free Palestine' until he smacked her phone away 

Crackhead Barney got into a screaming match with Andrew Giuliani in June 2021 as he was campaigning for Governor of New York in Times Square 

Giuliani brought up Israel during their first spat as he told her one of the reasons he was running for governor was 'I want to see a New York where you have Israel that is respected'.

This quickly led to an unhinged shouting match where each demanded to know if the other had visited Palestine, and Giuliani said she would be beheaded if she did.

Crackhead Barney has otherwise spent most of the past weeks at pro-Palestine protests at Columbia University, elsewhere in NYC, and in Washington DC.

Among dozens of videos from the rallies, she called pro-Israel protesters 'dirty Zionists' and stomped on an Israeli flag that she called 'ugly'.

She has in the past taken on other issues like abortion, appearing at a protest in 2022 wearing a bizarre costume with a baby doll and yelling 'God killed his son, why can’t I?'

Crackhead Barney has otherwise spent most of the past weeks at pro-Palestine protests at Columbia University (pictured), elsewhere in NYC, and in Washington DC 

Crackhead Barney, wearing a grotesque Trump mask, with her producer Drew Rosenthal (left) and sidekick NY Pig (center) who together make up Crackhead Barney and Friends

Another frequent target is Trump supporters, as she enjoys riling them up at rallies and getting them to say things she considers 'fascist'.

This included interviewing 'violent MAGA idiots' as they stormed the Capitol on January 6, 2021, including the infamous QAnon Shaman, Jacob Chansley.

'I’ll go to a MAGA event in DC or something, because I want to talk to the biggest clowns and losers, the biggest right-wing Christian morons, and hear the dumb s**t they have to say,' she explained in a rare interview with Metal Magazine.

'I gotta shake up the s**t I hear I wanna hear different stuff.'

She frequently wears a grotesque Donald Trump latest mask at protests and Trump rallies, often with a golden wig and very little clothing.

Crackhead Barney is known for bizarre and confronting questions aimed at eliciting strong reactions in her ambush-style interviews.

One example is asking NYC Mayor Eric Adams 'how much Black p***y' he gets, along with her pestering of Baldwin and Giuliani.

Performance artist Crackhead Barney dangles a a baby doll during a Saturday morning demonstration outside the Basilica of St. Patrick's Old Cathedral in New York City

Standing in a one-piece bathing suit, Crackhead Barney screamed: 'I'm killing the babies' and 'God killed his son, why can’t I?'

She is also frequently satirical of police and has a sidekick character on her Crackhead Barney and Friends show called NY Pig, who is dressed as a cop with a pig's head mask.

Her best-known police stunt was convincing a group of children at an NYPD gathering to loudly chant 'defund the police'.

Crackhead Barney reveals very little about her personal life, other than that she grew up in Jamaica, Queens, and attended Hunter College in NYC.

Her early performances were often on the NYC Subway and then at George Floyd protests, where she was spotted by producer Drew Rosenthal.

Rosenthal convinced her to collaborate in creating Crackhead Barney and Friends, which he films, edits, and manages.

Police officers pose with Crackhead Barney, seemingly unaware of her 'defund the police' views

Crackhead Barney tries to interview a group men yelling 'Christ Is King' at a handful of counter protesters during the March For Life on January 21, 2022

Crackhead Barney (wearing white underwear) walks across the street after police tell her to go there at a protest in Washington DC on January 20, 2021

Crackhead Barney said her most dangerous stunt was attending a Trump rally on Staten Island during his 2020 election campaign.

'I just ran into the crowd holding a baby carriage with a Black baby doll wearing a Trump mask on, a bikini, and an American flag in my p***y, and started crawling around the floor in the middle of the crowd,' she told Metal.

'I just remember looking up and being instantly circled by Trump people and they were trying to hit me and trample me and stomp me to death.

'The last thing I remember seeing was a foot heading toward my face and behind it white children who were yelling “F**k you b***h! Go die! F**k you!” and then I was in handcuffs.'

She was carried out of the rally by police, who dislodged her bikini in the process and took her to a psych ward claiming she was having a mental breakdown and exposing herself to children at the rally.

Crackhead Barney reveals very little about her personal life, other than that she grew up in Jamaica, Queens, and attended Hunter College in NYC

Crackhead Barney said her most dangerous stunt was attending a Trump rally on Staten Island during his 2020 election campaign

Opponents of the ex-president also gathered and tried to drown out the support with chants of 'no one is above the law'

Crackhead Barney describes her show as 'anti-fascist' and though she hates Trump the most she is no fan of the Biden Administration either. 

She called the president a 'f**king bulls**t racist piece of s**t' who along with vice president Kamala Harris 'jailed and incriminated more Black people than Trump and Pence put together'. 

'I hate all of them. Stop with the fuck shit, Biden is trash, Kamala is trash, and Trump is definitely trash,' she said.

Crackhead Barney funds her video campaign by selling merchandise including t-shirts, hoodies, and bags with outrageous photos of her with provocative slogans. 

'We make this s**t for you, so we can continue to make s**t for you!' the merch website explains.

It's not clear if Crackhead Barney will make another appearance at the Trump trial as it gets underway this week, or if she was just there to harass Giuliani.