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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.
 Wild video shows the pint-sized perps ganging up on police officers.

  The fight unfolded on West 42nd Street and Eighth Avenue.
 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 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 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.

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