Metro

Weiner makes big fat cop gaffe

Mayoral hopeful Anthony Weiner put his foot in his mouth at a campaign stop yesterday, implying to a crowd in Brooklyn that NYPD officers are fatsos.

The Democratic former congressman was talking about putting cops on bike and foot patrols when he blurted, “I think a few of them could use a few hours on a bike, if you know what I’m saying.”

He later tried to clarify his remark to the crowd at Temple Shaare Emeth in Canarsie, adding that he just wanted cops to “go out and walk and to bike and just be a presence in the community.”

His bike comment came after another campaign event yesterday in which he had an uncomfortable moment during a meeting with Hasidic leaders in Brooklyn.

Rabbi Moshe Leib Rabinovich, a prominent community leader, had asked Weiner about metzitzah b’peh — the controversial Hasidic practice of sucking circumcision blood from infants’ penises.

The Hasids want to repeal a city policy that forces parents to sign waivers before such procedures, and Weiner awkwardly danced around the slicing issue.

“I think Mayor Bloomberg deserves credit for being concerned about health, but there are lines that get drawn all the time,” he told them.

“But government always has to try to find that line.”

Weiner got a blessing from the rabbi, despite his noncommittal response.