Sick drinks for cops not a plot: NYPD

Workers at a downtown Manhattan Shake Shack never meant to hurt three cops who were sickened by bleach in their milkshakes, police said Tuesday.

“After a thorough investigation by the NYPD’s Manhattan South investigators, it has been determined that there was no criminality” by Shake Shack workers, NYPD Chief of Detectives Rodney Harrison said in a tweet early Tuesday.

A police source said the machine used to make the officers’ shakes at the Fulton Center Shake Shack had not been properly cleaned.

The officers were believed to have been sickened by residue from a cleaning product that contains bleach that was not wiped or rinsed from the machine after it was cleaned, said police.

Three officers, assigned to the 42nd Precinct in the Bronx but working at Manhattan George Floyd protests Monday were taken to New York-Presbyterian Hospital Lower Manhattan in stable condition.

Before the investigation was completed, leaders of police unions labeled the incident a deliberate assault on their members.

“When NYC police officers cannot even take meal without coming under attack, it is clear that environment in which we work has deteriorated to a critical level,” the Police Benevolent Association said on Twitter Monday night. “We cannot afford to let our guard down for even a moment.”

But on Tuesday, the PBA dialed back the criticism, saying it was “relieved that, based on current evidence, there was no intentional attack on New York City police officers in this case.”

The NYPD’s Detectives Endowment Association also made a similar warning in an “urgent safety message” issued Monday night on Twitter and since taken down.

On Tuesday, the DEA changed its tune.

“Evidently … the toxic substance, a cleaning solution, accidentally made its way into the officers’ shakes,” the DEA said in a statement that thanked the detectives who investigated the case and Shake Shack employees for cooperating with police.