Metro

No deals for cop ‘killers’

Brooklyn’s top prosecutor yesterday said he won’t even think about cutting plea deals with the five thugs accused of murdering cop Peter Figoski.

“There will be a trial,” District Attorney Charles Hynes vowed. “We want the public to understand that the murder of a police officer is as serious as any crime we’ve ever had.

“In cases like this, there’s no indication of a plea deal — ever.”

The DA’s steely comments came the day after 20,000 mourners flocked to Figoski’s funeral — and hours before the suspects were arraigned on murder raps in last week’s coldblooded slaying of the 22-year veteran, a single dad who left behind four daughters.

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The accused gunman, Lamont Pride, 27, yesterday glared at the scores of police officers who packed the courtroom at Brooklyn Supreme Court.

He rolled and twitched his neck as he pleaded not guilty to multiple murder counts that could send him to prison for life without parole if he is convicted.

One of his alleged accomplices, Ariel Tejada, 22, smirked as he was led in, while another alleged accomplice, Michael Velez, 21, mouthed the words “What up?” to someone in the gallery.

Velez — who is accused of acting as the would-be getaway driver during the botched drug robbery — last week had whined that he was innocent and claimed to be surprised to learn that Pride had a pistol with him at the time.

But while Velez was sitting in his car outside the targeted drug dealer’s basement apartment in Cypress Hills in the predawn hours of Dec. 12 and watched Figoski and three other cops arrive, he allegedly called in to Pride — clearly to warn him, law-enforcement sources told The Post.

Pride is accused of fatally shooting Figoski, 47, in the face while fleeing the apartment.

“There’s little question that [Pride] was the leader,” Hynes told reporters.

Like Pride, his four alleged accomplices — also including Kevin Santos, 30, and Nelson Morales, 27 — pleaded not guilty.

They are facing second-degree murder raps that could earn them a prison sentence of 25 years to life if convicted.

“For them to come into court and stand below the words ‘In God we Trust,’ and then proclaim their innocence when the world knows they’re not, makes your blood boil,” said Police Benevolent Association President Patrick Lynch.

“To them, it’s a joke. To them, going to prison for killing a police officer is a badge of honor.”

Police Commissioner Ray Kelly said, “We can’t give the life of a police officer back to his family. But we can see to it that some measure of justice is given to the family.”