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Ellen Barkin films heated exchange with NYPD (VIDEO)

By April MacIntyre Jan 2, 2012, 17:40 GMT

Ellen Barkin - Barkin used Twitter to let it be known how upset she was about the NYPD and Mayor Bloomberg after observing predawn arrests of Occupy Wall Street participants West Village home. © Pixplanete / PR Photos

Actress Ellen Barkin, who became a multi-millionaire in her divorce from Ron Perelman, rang in 2012 with a filmed incident in New York.

The police "shove" and cursing was caught on camera by her young boyfriend Sam Levinson, son of Barry Levinson, who directed the 1982 film "Diner" that made Barkin famous.

Barkin used Twitter to let it be known how upset she was about the NYPD and Mayor Bloomberg after observing predawn arrests of Occupy Wall Street participants West Village home.

“F--k all of u, Bloomberg & every1 goosestepping behind u,” she tweeted at one point, insisting that she herself had been “threatened” and “shoved” by an officer — a claim that is knocked down by the videotape evidence:

“I cannot believe what I am seeing. U protect nothing,” Barkin tweeted. The New York Post reported that Barkin had attended a New Year’s Eve performance by comedian Sandra Bernhard.

“Walking home . . . 13th and 6th,” she tweeted. “Police making random arrests of non protesters. Young girl in police van screaming ‘I’m just trying 2 get home.’ ”

“Just threatened on my street by NYPD, cop shoved me, both hands, onto sidewalk.”

The video captured sees the police officer guiding Barkin to the sidewalk. “Miss, sidewalk,” as he uses both hands to guide her gently backward out of the street and onto the curb. “Get your motherf--king hands off me,” Barkin tells him.

"Just threatened on my street by NYPD, cop shoved me, both hands, onto sidewalk..Is it a crime 2 stand in the street in NY? WTF is going on here?"