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Brooklyn jury clears men of assault charges in cop’s near-fatal motorcycle accident

They’re not guilty but they sure are cruel.

Two Brooklyn goons whooped it up in front of a still-recuperating cop today as a jury cleared them of assault charges for leading Officer Carlos Olmedo into the near-fatal path of a speeding motorcycle.

Tiku Qoku and Sefer Mujo dissolved into tears as they were acquitted of the top charge — which could have put them in prison for up to 15 years — then gloated just feet from Olmedo, who sat in stunned silence.

“It’s been two years!” Mujo yelled, slapping his hands together as he taunted the cop and his supporters.

Qoku, 19, and Mujo, 20, could still get up to a year behind bars when they’re sentenced July 27th after being found guilty of resisting arrest and unauthorized use of a motor vehicle in the May 2010 incident.

But they skated on the top charge — that they caused Olmedo’s fractured skull and broken leg when he was blindsided by a motorcycle while in hot pursuit of the suspected car thieves.

“Take my smile! Take my smile!” Mujo trash-talked as an elderly supporter threatened photographers with an umbrella. “For two years I haven’t slept right!”

Mujo’s attorney was much more subdued in his reaction to the split verdict.

“They never denied the resisting arrest charge,” lawyer Stephen Zeitlin said. “To blame these young men for running across the street at 1 a.m. was a stretch of the law and not a proper charge.”

Olmedo glumly shook hands with prosecutor Robert Walsh and a trio of cop supporters, but declined to say a word about the jury’s verdict as he walked out of the courthouse.

In dramatic testimony Monday, Olmedo said he was “practically dead” after being slammed by a motorcycle when he chased the suspected car thieves onto 20th Avenue in Bensonhurst.

“I flew so high, I landed on my head,” said the cop, who spent 11 days in a coma and has a massive scar that zig-zags across the left side of his head.

Olmedo was promoted to detective following the accident, but has yet to return to active duty.

The 33-year-old father of three and his partner Officer Marlon Key chased Qoko, Mujo and another associate, Mario Koruni, when the trio ran from a sedan that turned up on a police scanner as stolen.

Koruni, who pleaded guilty to possession of stolen property, is already serving one to three years in prison.

The 2008 Toyota Corolla — which belonged to a sex-toy saleswoman and whose kinky contents included vibrators and a $300 sex swing – had been reported as stolen weeks earlier from outside a Bay Ridge restaurant.

Jurors repeatedly viewed a video of Olmedo running after Qoku and Mujo while a motorcycle zooms in his direction.

But jurors said prosecutors simply couldn’t prove the assault charge.

“Nobody intended for the officer to be injured,” a female juror said.