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‘Gunman’ hits 5 cops with car

- By DANIEL PRENDERGAS­T, LARRY CELONA and MAX JAEGER Additional reporting by C.J. Sullivan and Kevin Sheehan mjaeger@nypost.com

Five cops were hurt Sunday when a gun-toting driver sideswiped them with his car in Brooklyn, authoritie­s said.

The officers were responding to reports of a man and woman fighting over a shared driveway on Avenue L near East 53rd Street in Flatlands.

“I pay taxes! You’re taking up my driveway!” the woman shouted, according to a neighbor who asked not to be identified.

A man then came out of the woman’s house at about 11 a.m. and began jawing with the driver, according to law-enforcemen­t sources.

Onlookers called cops when it looked like the argument might get physical and the driver flashed a gun, the neighbor said.

When one responding officer reached into the car’s driver-side window, the driver — identified by officials as Dwight Herving, 33 — threw the Nissan Sentra into reverse and hit the gas, the neighbor said.

Two witnesses said one of the officers fired a single shot as the car was backing up. The bullet did not strike anyone, according to officials.

Herving then clipped five cops with his car as he sped away, ac- cording to NYPD officials.

He raced east on Avenue L for about a block, making a left onto East 57th Street and gunning it the wrong way down the oneway street for about two blocks, according to investigat­ors at the scene.

He made a right onto Avenue J, crashing the Sentra into a Cadillac Escalade and then crossing into oncoming traffic where he struck a Dodge Durango, investigat­ors said.

Herving ditched the car near East 58th Street and ran south, according to authoritie­s, but cops collared him a half-block later.

A gun was recovered nearby, officials said.

Herving was initially held at the 63rd Precinct station house before being taken by ambulance to Brookdale Hospital just before 4 p.m.

“They’re trying to play me, yo,” he told a reporter who asked why he did it.

“Don’t put the smiling picture in,” he added after grinning.

Herving pleaded guilty to driving on a suspended license in November 2016 and was sentenced to five years’ probation.

The injured officers were taken to Kings County Hospital in stable condition.

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MAN: Cops lead Dwight Herving (right) away at the 63rd Precinct station house Sunday after, they say, he struck five cops with his car (above). A gun (left) was found near the car.
GOT THEIR MAN: Cops lead Dwight Herving (right) away at the 63rd Precinct station house Sunday after, they say, he struck five cops with his car (above). A gun (left) was found near the car.

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