New York Post

Shot officer’s hot tots save

- By KEVIN SHEEHAN and TINA MOORE Additional reporting by Joe Marino and Jorge Fitz-Gibbon

The off-duty cop shot in the foot in Harlem told The Post on Sunday that he’s “doing OK” — as sources revealed he is a 15year NYPD veteran who was once hailed as a hero for saving two tots from a hot car.

Officer Robert Manley, who is assigned to the department’s public-housing patrol unit in The Bronx, was the apparent unintended target in the shooting outside the Manhattanv­ille Houses on Saturday afternoon, police say.

“I’m doing OK,” Manley, who was released from the hospital Sunday morning, told The Post by phone. “I’m just a little overwhelme­d right now.”

Manley was at the complex for a memorial gathering for a local resident at around 4:30 p.m. when he was shot by two gunmen who then fled the scene.

The officer was hailed in August 2016 after he was flagged down by a resident in The Bronx and rescued two children who were locked in an overheated car, law-enforcemen­t sources said.

He was the seventh Big Apple cop shot this year amid an uptick in gun violence in the five boroughs. Two of the officers died.

Meanwhile, an NYPD clergy liaison disgusted by the violence used a police bullhorn Sunday outside the public-housing complex where Manley was injured to decry the recent spate of city shootings — prompting residents to shout “Amen!’ out their windows.

A woman apparently moved by the pastor’s curbside sermon even came out to surrender a bag containing a folding knife shaped like a gun.

“When is enough going to be enough?” Chaplain Robert Rice said. “When are we going to put these guns down?”

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