On Friday, Hollywood actor and TV presenter Alec Baldwin was
arrested in New York for allegedly punching a 49-year-old man in the face
during a parking dispute.
The 60-year-old who lives in downtown Manhattan with his
second wife and their four young children, was arrested in Greenwich Village.
“Police got a call around 1:30 pm (1730 GMT) regarding an
assault in progress. When we got there, we discovered that it looked like two
individuals were fighting over a parking spot,” the spokeswoman said.
The younger man had already parked his vehicle and was
attempting to purchase a parking ticket, when he got into a dispute with
Baldwin, “who then punched him in the face,” the officer said. She said the
unnamed man was taken to hospital in “stable” condition, while Baldwin was in
custody awaiting charges.
Baldwin is well known for his hot temper and for
impersonating Trump on satirical US television show “Saturday Night Live.”
In 2014, he was detained by New York police for riding his
bicycle the wrong way down a street. In late 2013, NBC scrapped his late-night
chat show after he allegedly subjected a photographer to a homophobic slur
outside his apartment on the day that a Canadian actress convicted of stalking
him was jailed.
