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The "30 Rock" sitcom actor, 60, "assaulted
someone for a parking spot that they were both going for," New
York Police Department detective Sophia Mason said.
Baldwin was arrested and charged with misdemeanor assault and
harassment, police said. He was met by dozens of photographers
and camera crews on his release from a New York police station
on Friday.
"Normally, I would not comment on something as egregiously
misstated as today's story," a post on his foundation's Twitter
account said. "However, the assertion that I punched anyone over
a parking spot is false. I wanted to go on the record stating as
much."
Baldwin has enjoyed a new wave of popularity in the last two
years for his scathing impressions of Trump on TV sketch series
"Saturday Night Live," winning an Emmy.
Told by White House reporters on Friday of his arrest, Trump
replied, "I wish him luck."
Baldwin has a history of losing his temper. In 2014, he was
given a summons for disorderly conduct after an argument with
police who stopped him riding his bike down a one-way street in
New York. In 2011, he was thrown off a plane for refusing to
stop playing the game "Words with Friends" before take-off.
Baldwin, who currently hosts the weekly television talk show
"The Alec Baldwin Show," in 2012 denied punching a photographer
who was trying to take photos of him with his then-fiancee, yoga
teacher Hilaria Thomas.
Baldwin and Thomas married in 2012 and have four children.
(Reporting by Gabriella Borter; Editing by Jill Serjeant, Susan
Thomas and Cynthia Osterman)
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