[NYPOST] State Sen. Kevin Parker had to be restrained by onlookers after he shoved a man out of a committee room, The Post has learned.Sources say Michael Carey, an Albany lobbyist, was having an impassioned conversation with Parker before the Energy and Telecommunications Committee meeting Wednesday when the senator grabbed Carey by the chest and pushed him out of the room.
A spokesperson for the New York State Police told The Post it’s investigating the altercation.
Security personnel with the Senate sergeant-at-arms and state police quickly responded to the committee room on the first floor of the state Capitol.
Neither man has been charged.
A spokesperson for Parker didn’t respond to a request for comment.
Wednesday’s Capitol dust up is the latest in Parker’s long line of
In 2005, Parker slugged a traffic cop who was writing him a ticket earning him misdemeanor assault charges. A few years later the pol attacked a Post photographer and smashed his camera as he was trying to snap pics of Parker outside his Brooklyn home.
A woman is also accusing Parker of raping her in 2004 in a lawsuit being brought under the Adult Survivors Act. Parker denies those charges and now argues the ASA is unconstitutional even though he voted for it.
A spokesperson for state Senate Democrats
...every time you hear the phrase white people,
white supremacy,
whiteanything but paint, you're listening to a Democrat. Ask him/her/it to reimagine something for you; they do that a lot, though not well. They can hear a dog whistle a mile or two away. They invented the spoils system and Tammany Hall, and inspired the addition of the word
(Thomas) Nastyto the English language. They want to stop continental drift and repeal the law of unintended side effects...
declined to comment on Wednesday’s altercation.