Brooklyn state Sen. Kevin Parker was busted last night after allegedly attacking a New York Post photographer who was trying to take his picture, police said.
Parker, a Democrat from the 21st District, became enraged when Post staff photographer William C. Lopez snapped a shot of him getting out of a car at his parents’ home on Avenue H in Flatbush at about 7 p.m.
Lopez, who filed a formal complaint with cops, said he was standing on a public street — where it’s legal to take pictures — when he shot the photo of the politician.
Shortly after the flash went off, the hulking Parker started chasing him, the photographer said.
“I’m standing in the street, I took one photograph of him and he charged at me,” Lopez recalled.
“I turned around and ran and he was actually catching up to me. I turned a corner and ran half a block and he’s chasing me the entire way.”
Lopez said Parker then gave up the chase and instead turned his ire on Lopez’s vehicle, a 1998 Subaru Forester, going over to the SUV and sitting down on the hood.
Then, Lopez said, Parker tried to get into the Subaru — and that’s when the real violence began, according to the lensman.
“He reached in and grabbed my camera,” Lopez said. “We were having a tug of war with the camera. I slide into the passenger seat with him in tow. I pulled his entire body into my car except his leg.”
“He ripped the door panel off my car with his legs. He tore out my flash.”
Lopez’s finger was caught in the camera strap and may have been sprained, he said.
The struggle soon ended as a crowd gathered, and Parker started whipping them up.
“They started saying I started it,” Lopez said.
Police soon arrived, and took Parker in for questioning. Hours later, he was charged with felony criminal mischief and was awaiting arraignment, police said.
This isn’t the first time Parker has been linked to allegations of violence.
Last year, he was accused of choking a staffer and smashing her glasses at his Glenwood Road office, but Parker claimed she was the one who started the dustup.
In 2005, he was accused of punching a city traffic agent in the face, but the charges were dropped in return for an agreement that he undergo anger-management training, according to a published report from the time.