Bros busted in cop threat

Oh, brother.

Two Brooklyn siblings have been arrested over accusations they threatened to shoot police in the head for towing a friend’s abandoned car.

Joel Paulino, 27, and Jonathan Paulino, 28, weren’t armed when they allegedly made the statements on Kingsland Ave. in Greenpoint Monday afternoon. They were charged with making terroristic threats.

The drama began when two cops came across the abandoned car, a gray Acura TL that has had a dead battery for months, and arranged for a private tow company contracted by the city to remove it.

“You are going to get shot in the back of your head,” Joel Paulino snarled at the cops, according to a criminal complaint.

“If you keep disrespecting us you are going to get shot,’’ ex-con Jonathan Paulino (photo) chimed in, according to the complaint.

The brothers left the scene but were arrested Tuesday.

Joel Paulino was ordered held on $75,000 bail. He had been enjoying his last days of freedom, as he is due to surrender Nov. 2 to begin a twoyear sentence for selling drugs.

Jonathan Paulino, released on $2,500 bail, could face additional charges because he was on parole after serving almost four years in state prison for dealing drugs.

Jonathan, the father of a 10-yearold boy, told the Daily News his brother tried to get into the car to retrieve an ID he left there when he saw it being towed, pissing off the cops supervising the tow.

“They grabbed him,” Jonathan said. “They actually put their hands on him. They just started having a few words. Nothing crazy.”

One of the officers appeared to be goading Joel, telling him, “Go ahead, just do what you wanna do,” according to Jonathan.

“I told my brother, ‘Come on, Joel, let’s go!’ ” Jonathan said. “Let’s get out of here. Let’s go, ’cause, you know, it’s the police, you know they don’t like us. They always mess with us over here!”

Jonathan has ongoing criminal cases in Brooklyn for allegedly selling heroin and cocaine, and in Manhattan for selling heroin.

He denied that he or his brother threatened to shoot the cops.

“I’ve never been a threat to police,” he said, breaking down in tears. “They see me every single day out here . . . I’ve never have done anything violent to anyone. I have a good heart.”

Jonathan said he tried reasoning with the officers in Spanish in an appeal to their shared Hispanic heritage.

Eventually, he said, everyone went their separate ways, leading the brothers to believe the incident was over.

The next day, Joel, then Jonathan, got picked up by police.

“They charged us with terrorism,” Jonathan said. “I don’t understand why they charged us with that. It was a verbal situation. They try to say they was threatened by us. The NYPD is saying they was threatened by guys like us?”