‘DWI’-cop friends hit

Badges stripped

The NYPD has brought the hammer down on two cops who were partying with a fellow member of the force before he drove his SUV onto a Brooklyn sidewalk and mowed down four pedestrians — killing one — sources told The Post on Tuesday.

Jeremy Rodriguez, 36, and Emmanuel Collado, 32, were stripped of their guns and badges for failing to keep rookie cop Nicholas Batka (inset) from getting behind the wheel early Saturday, sources said.

The three — who are all assigned to the NYPD’s Transit Bureau — were out drinking together in Manhattan, the sources said.

Batka, 28, who lives in the Greenpoint section of Brooklyn, lost control of his silver Dodge Durango in Williamsburg around 3 a.m., about four hours before he was scheduled to report for work.

The crash killed MIT scholarship student Andrew Esquivel, 21, who was living in the East Village while working as an intern at the Appboy digital marketing firm.

Three of Esquivel’s pals — MIT grad and Google employee James Balchunas, 24; MIT student Sophia Tabchouri, 20; and NYU student Divya Menezes, 23 — were also struck and seriously injured.

A bystander held shut one of the SUV’s doors to keep Batka from running away, witnesses said, and a prosecutor alleged that Batka squirmed into the passenger seat and claimed he hadn’t been driving.

Batka — who littered his Facebook page with photos showing him drinking— was charged with manslaughter, DWI and a litany of other crimes.

He was freed on $300,000 bond and suspended from the NYPD.

Sources said Batka was almost certain to get summarily fired by Police Commissioner Bill Bratton, because he’s still a probationary hire who’s not entitled to a departmental trial.

“He’s done,” one source said. “Look at the s--t all over his Facebook.”

Batka was represented by a PBA lawyer at his weekend arraignment, but the union refused to continue footing his legal bills, another source said.

He has since hired a private lawyer, Michael Farkas, who called the case “a terrible tragedy for all concerned.” Additional reporting by Larry Celona