[Range 365] Sen. Kevin S. Parker, a Brooklyn Democrat with a colorful reputation, casually tweeted at a Republican spokeswoman on Tuesday and told her to commit suicide.Sen. Kevin S. Parker (D) of Brooklyn, New York, the "brains" behind a bill that would scrutinize gun buyers’ social media and Internet search history before they make a purchase, flew off the handle in his characteristic fashion and told a GOP Aide to ’Kill Yourself!’ in a Tweet.
The New York Times reports that Candice Giove, deputy communications director for the outgoing Republican majority leader, John J. Flanagan, called the Senator out for possibly misusing his Senate-issued parking placard on Twitter.
"Kill Yourself!" he wrote in response in a now-deleted Tweet. The Brooklyn politician did later apologize, but only after an outpouring of negative feedback on the remark.
The unhinged remarks follow a pattern of behavior for Mr. Parker, who would likely not qualify to a buy a firearm in his proposed bill that would review gun buyers’ social media accounts. But he may not be able to purchase a gun already, as he was arrested and indicted on second- and third-degree assault, third- and fourth-degree criminal mischief, third-degree menacing and second-degree harassment for an assault on a news photographer outside his Brooklyn home, according to the New York Daily News. The New York Times reports he was convicted of two counts of criminal mischief for the fisticuffs.