He ‘wanted to hurt me’ – protester

Everything happened in an instant for protester Dounya Zayer: The foulmouthed cop demeaning her. His violent shove sending her flying. Her head hitting the Brooklyn pavement, and then the seizure coming on.

Zayer, 20, recounted the terrifying night when she and the other peaceful marchers crossed the path of Officer Vincent D’Andraia near the Barclays Center, with the cop now accused of insulting and then assaulting the physically overmatched victim on May 29.

“He wanted to hurt me,” Zayer (inset) told the Daily News on Wednesday. “Without provocation, he wanted to prove a point that he could hurt me, and he did. A twohand shove, and you could see his whole weight was in that push. I was off the ground entirely. I came out of my sneakers. The amount of force involved shows how much anger was involved in this assault.”

The young woman, marching in a protest over the George Floyd killing, saw no signs of the cop’s festering rage until just before she went airborne.

“I was not expecting to be hit at all,” said Zayer, who was backpedaling when D’Andraia slapped a cell phone from her hand and called her a “stupid f—-ing b—-h.”

“There was definitely anger in his voice when he called me what he did,” she said. “The fact that he called me a name is proof his intention was there. And I’m small. He knew the size difference.”

D’Andraia, 28, who has been suspended, faces charges of assault, attempted assault, menacing and harassment.

Zayer said she’s too frightened to return to the protests, and was left with mixed feelings about D’Andraia’s arrest.