Ireland Baldwin picks up supplies after protesting and shares ‘free water’ with activists 

Model Ireland Baldwin has been on the front lines of Black Lives Matters protests in Los Angeles this week.

Following a day of marching in a peaceful protest, the 24-year-old stepped out to run some errands and was spotted grabbing groceries on Thursday evening.

On the back of the black pickup truck she was riding in, Ireland affixed a handwritten poster advertising free water for activists on the ground.

The young advocate had her long hair up in a messy bun and donned a cream colored graphic T-shirt with brown drawstring slacks.

She wore a protective facemask and carried an armful of groceries back to her pickup truck which still had the ‘free water’ sign handing on the back window.

Earlier that day she and her boyfriend Corey Harper were spotted along with their Siberian Husky Koda handing out free snacks from the bed of their truck. 

Ireland has been vocal on social media and at the protests about her support for Black Lives Matter and desire to ‘defund’ the police.

Last week, Ireland tweeted that she was ‘so ashamed to be American’ and apologized to the BLM community for having to ‘jump through any hoops to get justice.’

She also came to her father Alec Baldwin’s defense when he was criticized for promoting his new podcast interview with controversial director Woody Allen on #BlackoutTuesday.

BlackoutTuesday was devised to disrupt the work week by stopping production and social media promotion in order to reflect and focus time and energy on promoting black artists, businesses and projects. 

Baldwin took to social media with several posts about the interview and was immediately met with fury from his followers for not only his choice to sit down with Allen, who has been accused of sexual assault by his adopted daughter, but also for his ‘tone-deaf’ timing. 

Ireland responded to critics in the comments: ‘Although the black squares are a sign of solidarity, I’m shedding light to the posts that my black activist friends are continuing to post and get out there.

‘I think everyone commenting negatively is missing the whole idea here. defending my dad because I know his intentions and where his heart is at.’

The model was referring to the images of back boxes that were the viral signature of Blackout Tuesday.

Those images were ultimately seen as counterproductive by many who found them either a hollow gesture or inadvertently clogging up social media feeds, silencing black voices and messages. 

Alec later responded to the overwhelming criticism with a lengthy Instagram video which addressed outrage over both his decision to promote Woody Allen, who has been accused of being a sexual predator, and dismissal of #BlackoutTuesday as ‘this…national day of whatever’.

He called the video a ‘pre-break ramble’ and also declared he would ‘be taking a break from social media for a time.’

However that promise was immediately broken, when the star of The Departed returned to the social media platform to post a video of flowers and some clouds. 

In his nearly ten-minute long video, the quick-tempered star defended his dismissal of ‘Blackout Tuesday protocols’ as simply seeing voting as ‘equally, if not more important’ than the social media movement. He also referred to his participation in social media as ‘a form of psychosis’.

However Alec’s focus was on his belief in the innocence of his most recent podcast guest Woody Allen.