When actress Ellen Barkin Tweeted her anger about the NYPD's apparent "random arrests" of innocent people in the wee hours of New Year's, she set off a firestorm of criticism from other Twitterers when she criticized the NYPD ("People being thrown in police vans, arrested for 'jaywalking'What happened to the NYPD of my youth?Who are u all?Shame shame on u all") and Mayor Bloomberg ("Fuck all of u,Bloomberg & every1 goose-stepping behind u.I cannot believe what I am seeing.U protect nothing.U ARE the violence in my city") and complained about a cop shoving her. But what do the cop-types on NYPD Rant think?
Well, they seem to be more familiar with Barkin as the ex-wife of Revlon mogul Ron Perelman (she famously auctioned off all the jewelry he gave her), and less familiar with her steamy love scenes in The Big Easy and Sea of Love or the fact that she won a Tony last year for her supporting role in The Normal Heart. But there are some amusing take-downs:
- "Word on the street is she used to date Teddy Roosevelt when he was PC."
- "The NYPD of her youth? That was 50 freakin' years ago. Most of them are dead."
- "I've seen toddlers redirected with more force."
- "If I wanted everyone to love me, I'd have become a fireman."
