Wild new video shows the moment a crew of pint-sized perps — some of them linked to a violent migrant youth gang — ganged up on two NYPD cops in the heart of Times Square, police said.
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.
Wild video shows the pint-sized perps ganging up on police officers.
The fight unfolded on West 42nd Street and Eighth Avenue.
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.
Yeferxon Jose Mijares-Hernandez, 19, as well as two boys, 16 and 17, also faced charges in the caught-on-video tussle.
All of them have since been released without bail.
Three of 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 that a fifth migrant teen, a 16-year-old recidivist, was taken into custody. But he was questioned and then released without charges upon further investigation, cops said.
The baby-faced brutes tried to rob a pair of youngsters on Friday. Obtained by NYPost
The punks crowded around the cops to throw items at them.
The top cop 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.






