I’m no fan of Baldwin, but if I had those press yahoos following me around everywhere, sticking lenses in my face, screaming questions, and generally acting like rampaging spastic chimps, I’d be more than a little tempted to go off on them myself.
WTF is it with these people? Someone gives them a camera and a press card and suddenly they think they have carte blanche to act like assholes?
There is nothing in the article that says the photographers did any of the things you mentioned. Another photographer who witnessed the event said he stands outside the court every day waiting for a good picture. It's their livelihood. Nobody badgered Baldwin, nobody touched him. This is the third time he's assaulted a photographer, so it's not an isolated incident. He flies off the handle without any provocation. Under NY State Penal Law, Baldwin should be charged with assault, which he initiated when he struck the photographer, who hadn't touched him in any way. He had no grounds to strike the photographer, and the fact that the guy hadn't physically retaliated in any way to the attack, is even more justification for an assault charge on Baldwin.
Sweets to the sweet, I’d say.
I am no Baldwin fan either, but I would have to agree, these people follow you around constantly and get in your face, it would take great restraint not to knock a few out.
Stephen Baldwin on the other hand I heard went into making christian only films, looks like one Baldwin brother is doing it right.