ABC News reports that Actor Wendell Pierce was arrested Saturday in Atlanta on a charge of simple assault and battery, police said.
According to a report released by Atlanta police Monday, the actor got into an altercation with a woman named Maggie Baca early Saturday morning at Loews Atlanta Hotel, where he was staying as a guest.
Pierce, 52, who was with his girlfriend at the time of the incident, ran into Baca and her two friends as he was exiting the hotel’s elevator, according to the police report.
The report states that a conversation about politics made Pierce upset. Allegedly Pierce pushed the victim and hit her in the head.