2 pals furious at wrongful arrest by NYPD

TWO BOYHOOD friends are calling foul on the NYPD after cops wrongly tapped them as shooting suspects in Harlem and arrested them.

Anthony Ross, 30, and Saquan Eadie, 29, ran into each other at W. 116th St. and Manhattan Ave. about 8:50 p.m. on May 17 and were talking when a police car rolled up.

Detectives jumped out and told them their all-black attire matched the description of two men involved in a nearby shooting about the same time.

“I was getting home from work. There was a shooting in the area, the cops were patrolling the area,” Ross told the Daily News. “They decided to stop me and my friend. They searched us, and we let them know we didn’t have any weapons.”

The police took them back to the precinct stationhouse, where they did a strip search. When Ross hesitated before dropping trou, officers threatened to Taser him, he told The News.

“I’m asking them why they arrested me. They said I was doing too much talking. I wasn’t doing anything. Why was I being arrested? They kept repeating ‘disorderly conduct.’ I said, ‘You grabbed my balls. Do you expect me not to be mad?’ ” Ross said.

“They proceeded to arrest us and strip-searched us in the precinct. I let them know that was illegal.”

The police gave Ross a summons for disorderly conduct and let him go.

“They said sorry. I said that’s not going to make up for violating my rights. They got mad and I left,” he said. “I went to go see a lawyer. He said, ‘You clearly have a case.’ ”

Eadie, who’d been arrested in July 2015 for selling drugs, was released from a three-year prison stint in January. He was on parole when he was arrested last month. That night, he was charged for having marijuana and a crack pipe, according to cops.

He is currently at Rikers Island, where he awaits a Tuesday parole hearing.

His mother, Karen Mathurin, was livid when she learned about the incident.

“They had my son in handcuffs already and slammed him to the ground. They illegally searched him in his pants and underwear,” she said. “They abused my son. I need justice.”

The Rev. Kevin McCall of the National Action Network said, “They say stop-and-frisk doesn’t exist, but this is an example that it still does exist.”

McCall was organizing a Monday rally in front of the 28th Precinct stationhouse.

Ross and Eadie both filed Internal Affairs Bureau and Civilian Complaint Review Board complaints.

The NYPD told The News that their arrests are under internal review.