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Cleared susp: Cop said fess, or I blast you

- Andrew Keshner

CONFESS, or I’ll shoot!

A Brooklyn man says an NYPD detective threatened to shoot him if he didn’t confess to a robberies he didn’t commit.

Emanuel Dash was acquitted in the case — and now he’s suing in Brooklyn Federal Court, saying his civil rights were violated.

But city lawyers say he’s shooting blanks with loaded allegation­s.

“Our view is that this case has no merit,” a Law Department spokesman said Wednesday. The department frequently comments only in general terms to say it’s reviewing a case.

Dash also filed another version of the case last year, in which he alleged he was forced to write a confession. That complaint was pending when he filed his suit Tuesday.

Dash was charged with four April 2015 robberies. The thief did the jobs wearing a mask and none of the victims could say in court that Dash was the bandit, his lawsuit says.

Both the detective and Dash testified at trial. Dash said the detective told him he’d shoot him unless he copped to the heists. There’s no video or audio of the confession, court papers said.

Dash was locked up for about a year and a half before his fall 2016 acquittal.

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