Wild new video shows the moment a crew of pint-sized perps ganged up on two NYPD cops in the heart of Times Square – as cops announced the arrest of the fifth migrant teen in the mayhem.
The officers were trying to step in when they spotted the baby-faced brutes trying to rob a pair of youngsters Friday evening at the packed intersection of West 42nd Street and Eighth Avenue, law enforcement sources said.
As officers stepped in, they became the young mob’s new targets – crowding around them and trying to throw items at them, according to the clip obtained by The Post Tuesday.
Among the items thrown were an umbrella and a baseball, police said.
Those arrested so far in the melee include a 12-year-old reputed ringleader — with police saying the mob is linked to the Venezuelan gang Tren de Aragua through its school-aged offshoot crew known as Diablos de la 42, or Devils of 42nd Street, the sources said.
The cocky brats even flashed gang signs and posted pics on social media while handcuffed inside a Manhattan police precinct after being busted in the attack on cops, according to photos also obtained by The Post.
NYPD Commissioner Jessica Tisch announced Tuesday that a fifth migrant teen, a 16-year-old recidivist, has been arrested.
She said the department’s gang database — which the City Council is trying to abolish — helped police identify and round up several of the pint-sized perps quickly after the Friday evening melee.
The council’s bid to get rid of the database “absolutely defies common sense,” she told reporters.
A short time later, the NYPD released photos of three more ruffians, believed to be between 15 and 20 years old, wanted in connection to the fracas.
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