Exclusive | Blood relations: NYPD cops under fire for flashing symbols of NYCs most violent gang

These are signs of trouble.Two uniformed cops from the Bronx were caught on camera flashing apparent hand signs of the violent Mac Baller Brims, a subset of the Bloods considered NYC’s most lethal gang, The Post has learned. The viral, undated photo — now the subject of an NYPD probe — appears to have been taken at a McDonald’s and shows two masked cops alongside an unidentified young man.One officer points his fingers down in the image, crossing his middle finger over his ring finger — the calling card of the Mac Baller Brims.The other cop also flashes an apparent gang sign, bending back his index finger and holding his other three fingers out.Lawyer and former NYPD officer Eric Sanders said the signs were authentic.“Those are Mac Baller Brim signs,” he said.“Those cops need to be modified.” He was referring to disciplining the cops by putting them on desk duty, or “modified” assignment.Retired NYPD Assistant Commissioner of Youth Strategies Kevin O’Connor agreed the cops were trying to make gang signs, but not doing it very well.“It looks like they’re trying to make Blood signs,” he said.

“The one on the right is trying to make the Mac Baller sign.”You have to look at the context of the picture,” he said.“The kid is in blue so were they messing around with him?” The Bloods embrace the color red, and their archrivals, the Crips, use blue.The disturbing photo was posted May 4 on Instagram by a user called michaelclancy1312.

The account didn’t respond to requests for comment and it wasn’t clear who originally posted the image.“Officers kitted out in balaclavas and beanies, throwing gang signs and posing like street enforcers with a civilian in a fast-food spot,” an X user called BrooklynP8triot wrote, reposting the picture.“This isn’t community policing; it’s cosplay for the very criminals they’re supposed to deter.“NYC, @NYCMayor, and @GovKathyHochul — who exactly are you hiring for the NYPD?” the post...