A model claims cops pushed into the Brooklyn brownstone he shares with his cover-girl wife, pepper-sprayed him and dragged him off to jail because of a mistaken report about his dogs.
“I feel very violated and angry,” said Ralph Jacob, who has modeled for Nautica, Banana Republic and Kenneth Cole.
“I was in my own house taking a shower when I was bum-rushed by cops, pepper-sprayed and beaten down for no apparent reason.”
His wife Shakara Ledard, who models for Victoria’s Secret, was not home.
Jacob said his nightmare began Friday when cops responded to a 911 call from a cable TV dispatcher who mistakenly reported a vicious dog inside the Bedford-Stuyvesant house was attacking a company worker.
Jacob said he ordered the worker out of the house because he was “rude” about his dogs being there, he said.
Jacob then went to take a shower and a few minutes later, cops were at the door asking if someone had called police.
“I said ‘no.’ A cop was pushing me toward the left and started entering my house,” Jacob said.
As many as 12 cops came in, he said, two or three with guns drawn.
Jacob spent a night in jail and got an adjournment in contemplation of dismissal on the charges of obstructing governmental administration.
A police spokeswoman said Jacobs pushed a cop and was pepper-sprayed when he resisted arrest.