Choked cop to get $5.4M

A black NYPD cop who told a group of officers beating and choking him with a baton that he couldn’t breathe four years before Eric Garner’s death could receive $5.4 million in damages, the Daily News has learned.

A federal judge recommended the amount on Friday — two years after a federal jury awarded plaintiff Larry Jackson $15 million, which the cops accused of attacking the 18-year NYPD veteran claimed was too excessive.

“I feel good about it, “Jackson, 47, told the Daily News Tuesday. “It shows that I didn’t do anything wrong in the first place and they will be held accountable to what happened to me and my family.”

Jackson was beaten by cops and falsely arrested on Aug. 22, 2010, when, during a birthday party for his daughter at his Queens home, his wife called 911 to report that an armed man had crashed the party.

But when police arrived, they jumped the 6-foot-3, 300-pound Jackson, even though he told them that he was “MOS,” meaning a member of the service, and was cooperating.

Jackson alleged the cops repeatedly struck him with batons and lifted him up “with an ASP baton around his neck,” according to court papers. “(The officer) kept telling (Jackson) to relax, and plaintiff kept responding that he was relaxed, but that he could not breathe,” the papers state.

Four years later, on July 17, 2014, Eric Garner died after Police Officer Daniel Pantaleo put him in a banned chokehold.

Jackson, who is still works in the NYPD’s Transit Bureau — and whose team was hailed last week for busting a gunman — said Garner’s death hit close to home.

“That could have been me, too, but I came out of it,” Jackson said.