NYPD agitator allegedly tossed flaming hat at cop’s NYC home during protest

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A frequent police agitator was arrested Wednesday for reportedly tossing a flaming hat at an NYPD officer’s home during a protest over the cop’s alleged rough-housing of demonstrators at an earlier rally.

Terrell Harper, 42, and other protesters showed up outside the cop’s home in Sunset Park, Brooklyn Monday night after the officer “put his hands on protesters” during a separate rally at a police station a day earlier, Harper claimed on social media.

The known police provocateur was “with a group of protesters standing in the front yard, chanting for the victim to come outside,” an NYPD spokesperson said.

“He then took a hat and lit it on fire and threw it,” the spokesperson said.

Protesters outside the cop’s house chanted “We want Justin!” and yelled at him to come outside in an apparent attempt to scare the officer, according to videos posted online.

“It’s all about making them scared of us. It’s all about making them want to quit their f—ing job, you know what I mean?” Harper later bragged about the protest outside the cop’s house in a video he posted to Instagram. “Nothing can stop them from making us go back to that [cop’s] house.”

At some point during the loud nighttime protest, Harper allegedly hurled the flaming hat toward a window of the home. It’s unclear where it landed.

The cop whose home was targeted was stationed outside the 73rd Precinct house during a protest against the NYPD on Sunday after two officers opened fire at a knife-wielding suspect on a crowded subway car — shooting two innocent bystanders on Sept. 15.

Harper, who was sued by an Asian cop in 2021 for the racist tirade he lobbed against the officer, accused the police officer of being overly aggressive and putting his hands on the protesters.

“He acted very aggressive, he spit towards us. He was letting us know he don’t f–k with us and we are the people — we are the people he signed up to protect,” he said in the Instagram video. “So we just had to let him know we ain’t f—king with him.”

The officer had no involvement with the Sept. 15 “friendly fire” police shooting that left one of their innocent victims clinging to life, according to a police source and even Harper himself.

“He didn’t even shoot the subway up. He just put his hands on protesters,” he admitted.

Harper was arrested and charged with burglary, coercion, inciting to riot, aggravated harassment, criminal mischief, tampering, arson and menacing Wednesday afternoon, police said.

The targetted officer’s home is currently being watched by cops as additional security, a police source said.

But Harper warned in his video that they planned to give more officers a home visit.

“Now we’re gonna start making house visits to everybody in that goddamn station,” he said with a laugh.

Harper, however, was charged with menacing and harassment for threatening another cop on Tuesday.

He allegedly told an NYPD sergeant: “You’re next. I’m coming to your house next” and “Don’t you know what I did last night?” in an apparent reference to the Sunset Park house protest, according to court documents.

The targeted protests were slammed by police supporters.

“This episode is just further proof that these anti-police activists aren’t actually interested in ‘justice’ or ‘accountability’ — they are trying to stop police officers from doing our job by targeting us for harassment or worse,” PBA President Patrick Hendry said in a statement.

“We are following up to ensure that those who terrorized our brother and his family are brought to justice.”