Brother battles cop-slay parole

The NYPD’s top lawyer will deliver a very personal argument on Friday — when he appeals to the state parole board to keep his police-officer brother’s killers behind bars.

Deputy Commissioner of Legal Affairs Larry Byrne (far right) plans to go before the State Parole Commission, as he did in 2012 and 2014, to try to ensure that the four men convicted in the 1988 killing his brother, Officer Eddie Byrne (near right), stay in prison.

The murderers were sentenced to 25 years to life and come up for parole review every two years.

“It’s important to me and to a lot of other peo- ple, not just because of the personal loss, which it was, but because of a very unique threat that this crime reflected at the time,” Byrne told The Post.

Eddie Byrne was killed protecting the Jamaica, Queens, home of a Guyanese immigrant who testified against a drug dealer.

The dealer had sought revenge after he was sent to jail.

“We need to send a message — they take one of us, we take one of them. You have to kill a cop,” the drug dealer said in a payphone call from prison, according to Larry Byrne.

“He basically declared war on cops, prosecutors and judges,” Byrne said.

Eddie Byrne, 22, was shot dead while sitting in a marked patrol car outside the witness’ home.