Photographer Robert Stolarik Roughed Up for Second Time in a Year by NYPD

It was just last December when photographer Robert Stolarik was shoved around while on assignment for the Times, at an Occupy Wall Street protest. This weekend, the NYPD got him even harder, arresting him for shooting in the Bronx, and keeping him most of Saturday night, until he got to go to a hospital in the early morning for x-rays. It’s always instructive when a journalist gets arrested, because we don’t usually get to hear about how cops treat people on the street. In this case, we get a particularly huge pile-up of NYPD lies: he allegedly hit an officer in the face with his camera and then “violently resisted being handcuffed.” Oh did he now.