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‘TEST’ COPS KNEW GRAY WAS DRUNK

Even after learning Joseph Gray flunked a preliminary sobriety test by more than double the legal limit, some of his colleagues discussed helping the DWI cop beat the rap, The Post has learned.

The result of the “Alco Sensor” breath test, given at the scene of the Aug. 4 tragedy by a highway officer, was not legally admissible into evidence.

So the jurors, who last week found Gray guilty of manslaughter for mowing down a family in Brooklyn, never heard that the smashed cop had a measured blood-alcohol level of .21 percent. Anyone who scores .10 is considered legally intoxicated.

But the test results clearly raised red flags for the officers and union delegates, who allegedly mounted a “blue wall of silence” at the station house.

They knew about the results as they huddled to discuss which additional sobriety tests the cop had a chance of passing, sources say.

It’s just one example of the alleged special treatment given to Gray that prompted Brooklyn DA Charles Hynes and the NYPD to launch a criminal probe.

Under usual circumstances, once a driver fails the Alco Sensor, he or she is presumed drunk, handcuffed and hauled into a station house. Once there, the driver is asked to take a more sophisticated Breathalyzer test, which is admissible into evidence.

If the driver refuses, a warrant is obtained for a blood test.

At the accident scene, Gray not only agreed to the field breath test, he begged for it.

But though they were armed with the incriminating results, police failed to cuff Gray. Once he was in the station house and consulted with union lawyers and officials, Gray refused to take the Breathalyzer or perform coordination tests.

Officer Martin Finkelstein, now retired, testified at Gray’s trial that he felt sorry for the drunken cop and tried to give him a break.

A blood test was ultimately performed on Gray four hours after the crash, showing he had a .16 percent blood-alcohol level.