They've cracked Officer Antonio Echevestre head with a nightstick': Court hears ex-cop's suit against other cops 22 years after bar brawl left him with brain damage

Antonion Echevestre (l.) and Scott Thompson outside Manhattan Supreme Court on Monday
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A former NYPD cop is finally getting his day in court against the fellow officers — including a former bodyguard for Rudy Giuliani — he says beat him so badly that they left him brain-damaged more than two decades ago.

Antonio Echevestre, 53, says cops repeatedly cracked him in the head with a nightstick during a brawl outside an upper Manhattan bar in November 1991.

The attack left Echevestre with an IQ of 79, his lawyer Bonita Zelman said in the very long-awaited opening arguments in Manhattan Supreme Court on Monday.

The incident started when a group of off-duty cops went to a bar in Washington Heights following a fund-raiser for another officer who had a sick child.

There, Echevestre’s partner, Scott Thompson, got into an argument with another cop, Kevin Tracy, and they took their differences outside, said Tracy’s lawyer, Thomas Cascione.

Thompson, a karate enthusiast, handed his gun to Echevestre and took off his shoes for the fight against the bodybuilding Tracy, Cascione said.

Tracy decked him with one punch, leading Echevestre to jump in, Cascione said. Then, Tracy’s bodybuilder partner, Pat Brosnan, grabbed Echevestre, telling him, “Two on one isn’t fair,” Cascione said.

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