Taser shock & takedown in Brooklyn

COPS USED a Taser to subdue an emotionally disturbed military veteran who was seen menacing his Brooklyn neighbors with a gun, and then wouldn’t take his hands from his pockets Monday, cops said.

The man’s distraught mother let cops into their apartment, where police said they found a .40-caliber Smith & Wesson handgun.

“Now I feel safe that they have him in the hospital,” said Maria Diaz, 47, the mom of Jose Borelli, the 25-year-old suspect. “They needed to Tase him because he is completely out of control.”

Police were first called to the Farragut Houses on Sands St., by the Brooklyn Bridge, at about 12:50 a.m., after a 911 caller reported seeing a man with a gun. Officers did not find the suspect.

Shortly before 9 a.m., another group of officers responding to a 911 call about a man menacing people with a firearm, saw Borelli and confronted him, police said.

He was toting a tan pouch that officers feared held a weapon, a witness said. Borelli ignored orders to take his hands out of his pockets, physically resisted and tried to flee. That’s when a sergeant jolted him with a Taser, cops said.With one hand cuffed to a fence, he still struggled, but police subdued him and took him to Woodhull Hospital. At one point, an officer was seen punching Borelli, as another cop lay faceup on the ground. It wasn’t clear how he fell.

Diaz, an NYPD crossing guard, said Borelli served five years in Afghanistan as a Marine.“Some people come back good, some people come back bad,” she said. “He’s no good psychologically.”