Actor Alec Baldwin was arrested Friday for assault related to an issue over a parking spot in New York, police report. NYPD Lieutenant John Grimpel told CNN that the incident occurred on 10th Street in Manhattan, but did not provide more details. Bushwick Patch writes that Baldwin punched a man over a parking spot.
Baldwin is currently in custody at the 6th precinct and charges are pending.
The actor is known for portraying Donald Trump on Saturday Night Live.
Alec Baldwin, whose dying mediocre career was saved by his terrible impersonation of me on SNL, now says playing me was agony. Alec, it was agony for those who were forced to watch. Bring back Darrell Hammond, funnier and a far greater talent!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) March 2, 2018
He also hosts a Sunday talk show on ABC called The Alec Baldwin Show. He was arrested in 2014 for disorderly conduct and was acquitted in a battery case involving a New York Daily News photographer in the 1990s.
Baldwin was the first person I ever experienced being blocked by on Twitter, after he used his account with hundreds of thousands of followers to berate me for…writing about a fundraiser he’d hosted in a way he didn’t find satisfactory. https://t.co/EPwYYF8iPB
— Maggie Haberman (@maggieNYT) November 2, 2018
Alec Baldwin also told me “I hope you choke to death” when I was on assignment, staking out his house https://t.co/JAgMkGGwDM
— Tara Palmeri (@tarapalmeri) November 2, 2018
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