EX-COP: I’M THE VICTIM

‘Shooter’ sues

A former NYPD cop who was fired for shooting his ex-lover in 2015 says he was the real victim — alleging in a new lawsuit that she attacked him first and the department ignored his own abuse claims.

Ex-sergeant José Guerrero was canned by the department and charged with reckless endangerment after the mother of his child, Yahayra Feliz, was shot in the neck amid a December 2015 domestic squabble in Guerrero’s Yonkers apartment.

But Guerrero insists that Feliz broke into his home, woke him up “with a smack to his face,” then was shot and suffered a “flesh wound” when she grabbed for his department-issued Glock — a claim that fell on deaf ears with investigators, according to a suit he filed Monday in Brooklyn federal court.

The suit — which names the city, NYPD top cop James O’Neill and Yonkers, among others — alleges that Guerrero’s abuse claims were shrugged off because of the defendants’ “racial and gender stereotyping [and] believing he could not be a victim of domestic violence.”

“The whole time there were smirks on their faces like they didn’t believe what I was telling them,” Guerrero told The Post. “They weren’t looking at me as a victim.”

The ousted cop claims that his own allegation that Feliz “physically and mentally abused him” for years went ignored, while he was arrested by Yonkers cops.

The case against Guerrero was eventually dismissed and sealed in July 2016, according to the filing, but the Westchester County DA’s Office declined to discuss details of the decision.

Even though Guerrero dodged criminal proceedings, he was still suspended and eventually fired by the NYPD, despite it never being conclusively proven that he was the one who pulled the trigger on his Glock, the suit claims.

In addition to being dumped by the department, Guerrero was forced to give up his side gig teaching karate to underprivileged kids due to the strain of the incident, he says.

City Hall referred a request for comment to the NYPD, which did not immediately issue a public response to the suit.

Reached briefly by phone, Feliz disputed part of Guerrero’s claim.

“I never broke in on anybody,” she said.