Alec Baldwin seen in handcuffs on side of 5th Ave; Was riding bike wrong way

[hrmjustin]

Eyewitness News
NEW YORK (WABC) -- Alec Baldwin was stopped by NYPD officers for riding his bike the wrong way on 5th Avenue.

Police say he was riding the bike the wrong way on 5th Avenue and 16th street and he became belligerent with police after being stopped.

In Touch Magazine showed a picture of Baldwin in handcuffs in front of an NYPD cruiser.

http://abclocal.go.com/wabc/story?section=news/local/new_york&id=9536100

[NYC_SKP]

1. Bigger pic:

[hrmjustin]

2. thanks for the pic. Glsd he is not getting special treatment.

[NYC_SKP]

3. I guess I am, too, but with the stop and frisk thing, taking him to the station, etc., I am...

...not missing life in the city so much.

I liked it when I left but the transformation had just begun, some of what made NYC interesting to me is gone forever.

[hrmjustin]

4. Stop and frisk is down 86 percent now.

[Control-Z]

5. So this was a bicycle he was riding,

not a motorcycle? In the wrong direction. With no ID. The headline makes it sound like a drunk motorcycle rider going in the wrong direction into oncoming traffic.

I can understand the problem it would cause to ride a bicycle the wrong direction in such a crowded city. But no ID?

This "news story" seems a little ridiculous.

[hrmjustin]

6. I think there is a law in ny that when you are stopped and have no id they have to take you in.

[Control-Z]

7. If someone is walking too?

Seems like an easy way to pick up a lot of unsuspecting people.

[hrmjustin]

8. when Rudy took over he really enforced this and Bloomberg continued it.

[Control-Z]

9. Seems harsh. (nt)

[hrmjustin]

10. I agree. Seems like police state tactics.

[Jenoch]

11. If someone is issued a SUMMONS, which means a citation for breaking a traffic law,

and the person does not have ID on them, THEN they are taken into custody to sort things out. Had he been stopped and frisked (assuming probable cause) and was not issued a summons, then he would not have been taken into custody.

I heard on the radio that he did the "don't you know who I am?" routine. He supposedly said something about how young the cops must be if they did not know who he is.

If Baldwin had not been violating a traffic law he would not be in the news today.

[hrmjustin]

12. I hope he learns a lesson on this.

[Jenoch]

13. He seems to have a problem with authority.

I seem to remember him playing 'Words with Friends' on his phone while on an airliner that was pulling away from the gate. He was escorted off the plane because he refused to turn off his cell phone. I'm not convinced that cell phones actually do have the ability to cause interference with the operations of an airliner, but that's the rule and by not following that rule Baldwin inconvenienced a lot of people that day.

[hrmjustin]

14. Some people don't think the rules apply to them.

He is one of them.