New York Daily News

Man cuffed for cop-hate scrawl

- Rocco Parascando­la With Shayna Jacobs

He clearly wasn’t looking over his shoulder.

An angry young man scrawled “F—k NYPD” on a Midtown building with cops watching, police said Wednesday.

Anthony Sanmartin, 22, was caught in the act using a black Sharpie to scrawl the message inside, oddly, a heart, on a Third Ave. building by E. 51st St on Tuesday afternoon, authoritie­s said.

He also scrawled “Equality, peace and love,” police said.

Officers busted him moments later, then learned he was wanted for a wild incident last month in which he vandalized Ruth’s Chris Steakhouse on W. 51st St., where he used to work, police said.

Sanmartin, who lives in Queens, was arraigned Wednesday afternoon on criminal mischief and making graffiti charges and was released with no bail.

On Aug. 18, the same night the steakhouse was vandalized, Sanmartin allegedly tried to commit two robberies in Bedford-Stuyvesant, Brooklyn.

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