Alec Baldwin arrested for allegedly punching man over parking spot

Actor Alec Baldwin was arrested on Friday, the New York Police Dept. confirms, after a dispute over a parking spot in Greenwich Village in New York City during which he allegedly punched a 49-year-old man.

The 60-year-old has since been charged with assault and harassment and was given a desk-appearance ticket, which means he’ll get to go home but is due back in court at a future date.

He was photographed leaving the Sixth Precinct at a little after 4 p.m. ET and didn’t take questions from the long line of reporters outside.

Parking spot dispute

According to a TMZ report, Baldwin had a friend holding the street spot for him. However, someone else pulled in and took the spot.

At that point, Baldwin reportedly became “irate” and allegedly punched the vehicle’s driver in the jaw.

A rep for the star, who has been getting a lot of attention for playing President Trump on Saturday Night Live for the last two years, has not yet responded to Yahoo’s request for comment.

However, the president himself did comment, saying to reporters, “I wish him luck,” before smirking and shrugging. Trump’s son Don Jr. wasn’t as shy, taking to Twitter to call Baldwin a “piece of garbage.”

Actor’s history

Baldwin has a notoriously bad temper. If you look on YouTube, there are video compilations of his most famous public outbursts. He infamously left a voicemail for his then-11-year-old daughter Ireland, calling her a “thoughtless little pig.”

He was accused of using a gay slur in another NYC street spat, leading to his losing a show he had at the time on MSNBC. We could go on, but you get the point.

Future of his show

Will Baldwin, who also has four young children with his second wife, Hilaria, lose his new ABC show, The Alec Baldwin Show, over this?

No such decision has been made just yet, with the show’s publicist telling Yahoo that the next one “will air as scheduled on Sunday, Nov. 4, at 10 p.m.”

However, Baldwin himself did respond to Gothamist’s request for comment with a plug for his show: “My comment is that my show airs Sunday at 10 pm on ABC, with Mike Myers and Cecile Richards as my guests.”