Video Will Exonerate Alec Baldwin In Parking-Lot Spat: Lawyer

WEST VILLAGE, NY — Alec Baldwin pleaded not guilty Monday to charges he punched a man in the face over a West Village parking spot.

Baldwin, 60, was arrested on Nov. 2 after motorist Wojciech Cieszkowski drove into a parking space in front of 28 E. 10th Street that the actor's relative was holding for him. The pair argued and the feud escalated into a brawl and the 49-year-old driver accused Baldwin of punching him in the face, according to police and court records.

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The actor's lawyer, Alan Abramson, told the Manhattan Criminal Court Monday that video evidence will exonerate Baldwin.

"There is incontrovertible video evidence that has been turned over to the district attorney's office that proves beyond all doubt that Mr. Baldwin never punched anyone," Abramson said.

"Mr. Baldwin did not commit any crime and we are confident that once this matter is fully investigated it will be resolved swiftly and appropriately in court."

Baldwin stood silently in a purple polo shirt as he was arraigned on misdemeanor assault and violation-level harassment charges and was released without bail, court records show.

The star, known for his impersonation of President Donald Trump regularly featured on NBC's "Saturday Night Live," tried to drive his black Cadillac Escalade into the Village parking space when Cieszkowski, at the wheel of a black Saab station wagon, took the spot, police said.

The scene quickly turned violent, Cieszkowski told authorities.

"I observed the defendant push me and then strike me across the left side of my face with his closed right hand, resulting in pain to my face," Cieszkowski said, according to court papers.

The actor has had run-ins with the law before, such as a 1995 arrest for slugging a paparazzi photographer in Los Angeles. He was also infamously removed from an American Airlines flight in 2011 after allegedly acting belligerent with a flight attendant who asked him to stop playing "Words with Friends" and put his cellphone away.

Baldwin denied the allegations on Twitter the day he was arrested for the parking spot spat.

“Normally, I would not comment on something as egregiously misstated as today’s story,” he wrote. “However, the assertion that I punched anyone over a parking spot is false.”

He is due back in court on Jan. 23, 2019.

The Associated Press contributed to this report.

Actor Alec Baldwin, right, and his attorney Alan Abramson, leave New York Supreme Court Monday, Nov. 26 after the actor was arraigned on misdemeanor and violation-level charges that he allegedly punched a man over a parking spot. (Photo courtesy of Richard Drew/AP Photo)