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The robbery suspect who attacked Brooklyn cops with one of their own Tasers punched a different officer in the face just days later, police said Wednesday.

Anthony Salgado, the 25-year-old robbery suspect who was caught on video fighting with four cops in Prospect-Lefferts Gardens on Sunday, was busted Tuesday for attacking a 23-year-old member of the NYPD, police said.

Officers were handcuffing Salgado to a bed at Kings County Hospital around 1:45 a.m. Tuesday when he lost his temper and swung at the young cop, punching him in the right eye, according to authorities.

Salgado was charged with assaulting a police officer for the early morning assault, cops said.

Police had been trying to nab Salgado — the suspect in a string of cell phone robberies — at a deli on Nostrand Avenue Sunday evening when he put up a fight and turned the tables on them, shocking video shows.

In the footage, one of the cops can be seen taking out his yellow Taser as all four of the uniformed officers scuffle with Salgado, who continues to put up a fight.

Eventually, two of the officers take out their batons and begin whacking him.

Salgado continues to brawl with the quartet of cops, throwing punches at them before grabbing an officer’s Taser — and stunning three of them, the video shows.

He then ran off with the weapon, but was arrested about a block away. He was charged for Sunday’s incident with several counts of assault, as well as grand larceny, reckless endangerment, resisting arrest, criminal possession of a weapon and violating local law, police said.

Salgado is still hospitalized and his arraignment is pending in Brooklyn court.

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