‘We cannot be fighting’

NYPD chief kneels

The NYPD’s highest-ranking uniformed member knelt in solidarity with George Floyd protesters at a demonstration in Manhattan on Monday night.

Chief of Department Terence Monah an( above) made gesture outside Washington Square Park, where he also addressed a crowd of several hundred — pleading for an end to the violent outbursts that have plagued otherwise peaceful protests.

“Everyone, this has got to end ,” he said. “We all know Minnesota was wrong. They were arrested, which they should be.”

Monah an then gestured to his officers, who since Friday night have clashed on several occasions with protesters.

“There is not a police officer over here that thinks Minnesota was justified ,” Monah an, using aloud speaker, told the crowd .“We can not be fighting. We have to live here. This is our home.”

The whole episode unfolded after two water bottles were tossed toward a group of cops who were standing in the street with demonstrators, an online video of the incident shows.

It’s unclear if anyone was hit, but the act didn’t sit well with the protest’s organizers.

“Don’t throw sh-t. Don’t throw sh-t,” an organizer who was standing near the officers told the crowd.

“I need y’all to listen to me . . . We came out here to protest the violence in their system ,right?

“Don’t start throwing sh-t over here and makeu s f--king look bad.”

After kneeling, the top chief shared an embrace with protest organizers.

One of the protesters said he appreciated Monahan’s display of unity.

“It’ s good. I’ m finally happy somebodyis on our side ,” S coo by A very, a 23-year-old chef from Bedford Stuyvesant, Brooklyn, said.

Monday marked the fifth straight night of protests over the death of Floyd, a black man who died last week at the hand sofa white Minneapolis police officer.