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Kimani Gray showed his ‘tough’ side online – but also had big goals

‘HANDY’ MAN: Facebook picture of Kimani Gray, who was killed after allegedly threatening cops with a gun. (Polo Da Don/New Wave Entertainment)

Here’s Kimani Gray flashing gang symbols and flaunting his colors.

He was shot and killed in East Flatbush on March 9 by cops who said he had pulled a gun.

On his Facebook page, Kimani brazenly shows Bloods hand symbols in five photos. In one tell-tale image, his fingers form the shape of a “B” while holding a red scarf. In another, he shows a sideways “W,” signifying “West Coast,” where the gang originated.

There is also online video which cops say shows Kimani – he’s wearing a red sweatshirt – taunting a young rival Crip and stomping on his beads.

Police say the 10th-grader known as “Kiki” was a Blood and had a criminal record. Kimani and his friends were out to commit a robbery that night, said a law-enforcement source.

“He’s been in trouble in school and in trouble on the streets,” the source said.

But an expert on city gangs said the teen’s Internet antics indicate he was low on the food chain since most serious gangbangers don’t post incriminating images.

And a man claiming to be Kimani’s uncle suggested the 16-year-old’s crew was more of a small-time “clique.”

They’re “not going out there robbing or anything like that,” he said during a radio interview on Hot 97. “They got their little cliques. But . . . you couldn’t pay my little nephew to [do] anything like that.

“All he do is play ball, go to school and worry about his fashion and girls.”

The man said his nephew was smoking pot outside a party when the confrontation with undercover cops unfolded on East 52nd Street.

Cops fired 11 shots, and hit Kimani seven times. Since the shooting, protesters have marched down Church Avenue for five straight nights — and at least 46 have been arrested in clashes with police, including Kimani’s sister, Mahnefah, 19.

“His older brother got shot up a couple months ago down the block,” his uncle said, adding that “if cops drove up, jumped out and had their badge, then he wouldn’t have gone anywhere.”

Kimani’s neighbors and teachers say the handsome high-schooler may have acted tough but was serious about becoming an accountant and moving his family out of their neighborhood.

“We always talked about it,” one childhood friend told The Post. “Our goal was to finish school, to not let the negativity around us hold us back.”

Kimani was a student at Urban Assembly School of Design and Construction in Hell’s Kitchen.

“We believed in his potential from the day he entered our school,” Principal Matt Willoughby wrote in a letter yesterday. “He traveled for over an hour each day from East Flatbush . . . to our little architectural-themed high school. The year and a half we had with Kimani allowed us to get to know his best self.