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A wild brawl erupted outside a Harlem funeral home Monday, leading to the arrests of two people — one who was tased by a cop, police and witnesses said.

The dispute started at 7:43 p.m. near the George H. Weldon Funeral Home on East 116th Street before it spilled next door in front of Harley’s Smokeshack restaurant.

“I heard the Taser pop and I thought it was a gun at first. And then the people started screaming, and the people were pushing the cops, and the cops started pushing the people,” witness Angel Gutierrez said.

“Everyone started yelling, the ladies mostly started crying … more people started getting arrested.”

It wasn’t immediately clear if combatants had been attending services inside the funeral home before fists flew outside.

Cops confirmed two people were arrested and two officers suffered minor injuries in the melee. Gutierrez shot cellphone video of the brawl, showing a woman and the tased man being arrested.

“He (the man tased) just went down — mostly the people around him got crazy,” Gutierrez said. “They started screaming, some lady was like, ‘That’s my brother, what’s wrong with you?!’ Some guy started screaming at the top of his lungs.”

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