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Actor Alec Baldwin charged over New York parking spot fight
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In this file photo taken on April 4, 2017 Actor Alec Baldwin arrives at Barnes & Noble Union Square in New York, to sign his new book 'Nevertheless: A Memoir.' (AFP/Angela Weiss)
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ctor Alec Baldwin, most recently famous for his impersonations of U.S. President Donald Trump, was charged on Friday after a fight over a New York parking spot, police said.
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.
Representatives for Baldwin said the actor had no comment.
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."
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1- Normally, I would not comment on something as egregiously misstated as today’s story.
However, the assertion that I punched anyone over a parking spot is false.
I wanted to go on the record stating as much.
I realize that it has become a sport to tag people w as many negative
— HABFoundation (@ABFalecbaldwin) November 2, 2018
2- negative charges and defaming allegations as possible for the purposes of clickbait entertainment.
Fortunately, no matter how reverberating the echos, it doesn’t make the statements true.
— HABFoundation (@ABFalecbaldwin) November 2, 2018
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.
