The Florida deputies who were charged after a viral video emerged of them roughing up a teen last year say their actions were justified under the state’s stand-your-ground law, a report said.

Lawyers for former Broward County deputy Christopher Krickovich and active Sgt. Gregory LaCerra, filed a motion this week arguing the officers were acting in self defense in the April 2019 takedown of 15-year-old Delucca Rolle, according to the South Florida Sun Sentinel.

Video from the incident shows LaCerra, who’s on restricted duty, pepper-spraying Rolle, then forcing him to the ground in front of scores of students at a plaza parking lot in Tamarac.

Krickovich, who was fired in December, was seen on the video punching Rolle in the head and slamming his head into the pavement.

But, according to the motion filed by their defense lawyer Eric Schwartzreich, the actions were “justified and it was legal.”

Rolle had been “disregarding the show of authority” by continuously trying to grab the dropped cell phone of a separate teen suspect the deputies were there to arrest for trespassing, according to the motion.

LaCerra pushed Rolle back, but the teen then “tensed up his body and stepped toward [the sergeant] in an aggressive manner while uttering profanities,” the court papers say.

After that, LeCerra used the pepper-spray and both officers subdued Rolle.

In Rolle’s arrest affidavit, Krickovich wrote: “I had to act quickly fearing I would get struck or having a student potentially grab weapons off of my belt vest.”

One of Rolle’s lawyers, Sue Ann Robinson, blasted the motion, telling the Sun Sentinel the move is a “contorted disgusting misuse of the law.”

“All to avoid accountability for their use of excessive force that we find at play all too often against black and brown citizens,” Robinson told the paper.