Two cops were hurt as they nabbed an alleged iPad thief in a SoHo subway station yesterday, police said.
Sgt. Antoine Ducret and his partner, Officer Joseph Dellauniversita, spotted a suspect with an iPad coming out of the Bleecker Street 6 train station at 3:30 p.m.
Seeing that the suspect matched the description of a man who’d just been seen taking an iPad from a shop on Mulberry Street, the officers confronted him.
“Why are you guys looking at me like I just stole this iPad?” said the alleged perp, identified as Kevin Chavis, 22.
Chavis ran off. As the two cops caught up with Chavis, he threw one of them down the subway stairs, sources said. The sources declined to say which officer was thrown down the stairs.
Chavis ended up in handcuffs anyhow. He was charged with assaulting a police officer, resisting arrest, obstructing governmental administration, and criminal possession of stolen property, among other charges, police said.
Dellauniversita was taken to Beth Israel, where he was treated for a broken wrist and released. Ducret was treated and released from Bellevue.
Both cops suffered cuts and bruises to their legs and arms, authorities said.
Dellauniversita saved the life of a Long Island straphanger as a rookie cop in 2009, using a defibrillator to revive the man from cardiac arrest.