A tough Brooklyn cop who was saved from taking a bullet in the gut when his finger jammed underneath the hammer of a man’s .38-caliber revolver during a struggle told rapt jurors about the harrowing life-or-death encounter at the accused thug’s attempted-murder trial Wednesday.
Sgt. Michael Miller fought with Eugene Graves, 32, over the gun after he noticed it in Graves’ pants during a traffic stop in Bedford-Stuyvesant in 2011, prosecutors say.
“He sticks it under my [bulletproof] vest. It [the vest] doesn’t cover my stomach,” Miller testified. “That’s when I’m begging him, ‘Please don’t shoot me, please don’t do it!’ ”
Miller said Graves pulled the trigger several times — but miraculously, the gun didn’t go off.
“The divine intervention was the tip of my finger getting in his gun,” Miller said. “Honestly, I was waiting for my partner to shoot him.”
Graves faces life in prison. Defense attorney Damien Brown said the cops improperly stopped the car and that the gun didn’t belong to Graves.