Actor Alec Baldwin was arrested in New York City on Tuesday for riding his bicycle in the wrong direction on a one-way street and acting "in a violent, threatening manner" toward police officers, officials said, according to the Associated Press.
The Emmy-award winning actor was taken into custody by two officers who spotted him riding his bike against traffic in lower Manhattan around 10 a.m., police said, the AP reported. He was issued two summonses, one for the bicycle violation and another for disorderly conduct.
Baldwin, 56, reportedly refused to show his ID and acted belligerently, prompting the officers to handcuff him and take him, and his bicycle, to a nearby precinct, they said, according to the AP. A representative for Baldwin didn't immediately return a request for comment.
Baldwin, who portrayed Jack Donaghy in the hit TV comedy "30 Rock," was taken to the 13th Precinct for processing and was released by late morning, said an NYPD spokeswoman, according to the AP.
"New York City is a mismanaged carnival of stupidity that is desperate for revenue and anxious to criminalize behavior once thought benign," the star tweeted later in the day through the Alec Baldwin Foundation Twitter account regarding his arrest, the AP reported. He also tweeted the officer's name and badge number and complained that police did nothing when photographers nearly hit his daughter with a camera outside his home.
Earlier this year, Baldwin said he was considering leaving the city, due in part to press accounts last year that portrayed him as a hot head and a homophobic bigot, according to the AP.
"I haven't changed, but public life has ... You're out there in a world where if you do make a mistake, it echoes in a digital canyon forever," Baldwin said in a cover story entitled "I Give Up," according to Reuters.
Baldwin is scheduled to appear in Manhattan Criminal Court on the disorderly conduct summons July 24, the AP reported.
