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A Manhattan crowd cheered and jeered as two NYPD cops were hurt early Saturday trying to subdue a strapping 6-foot-182-pound suspect, who toppled the officers to the pavement before trying to flee custody, video obtained by the Post shows.

The ugly 2 a.m. incident unfolded when the man approached two uniformed officers on the Lower East Side, according to cops and witnesses.

It’s unclear what exactly sparked the man’s battle with, and brief escape from, the cops.

officers trying to place the young man, later identified as Shawndel Evans, 26, into a patrol vehicle in the pouring rain when he begins to struggle.

“I’m gonna record this s–t!” said one witness, who did just that.

Bystanders cheer the 26-year-old Evans on, yelling, “You’re a strong man, get out of there bro!” and “They don’t got you! They don’t got you! Get the f–k up out of there! Hurry up! Hurry up!”