Alec Baldwin Arrested In New York City After Going ‘Ballistic On The Cops’ In Bicycle Incident

Alec Baldwin was arrested in New York City Tuesday, as according to online reports, he was riding his bicycle in the wrong direction, and didn’t have his identification to show officers.

The mercurial 56-year-old actor, InTouch reported, was taken into custody on 5th Avenue after he “went ballistic on the cops, screaming at them,” though was “calm and quiet” at the time he was handcuffed and placed into the cop car.

The volatile celebrity has a long history of anger-fueled incidents, as he was famously fired from MSNBC last fall following a series of incidents with the paparazzi, the last straw for the network being when he called a pap the homophobic phrase, "c***sucker."