#Brooklyn couple hauled off NYC ferry in handcuffs for not wearing face masks

A Brooklyn couple was cuffed and hauled off a city ferry Saturday night for refusing to wear face masks — as other riders cheered their arrest, according to cops and video.

The middle-aged Bay Ridge pair spent 15 minutes on the NYC Ferry boat’s top deck arguing with workers over the captain’s order to put on a mask amid the pandemic when the boat docked at Brooklyn Bridge Park around 8 p.m., Gothamist said, posting video of the raucous encounter.

The angry couple — claiming they were being discriminated against because they are white — then went back and forth with two responding NYPD officers for another 45 minutes, while other riders shouted for them to get the boot so the ferry could continue on its way.

The woman, who told the Web site she was returning home with her husband after a night out in Manhattan — and urged the reporter to film the incident — said, “I’m just so fed up.

“This has been going on since March, and my husband is f–king pissed off,” she told the site. “Every time I have to commute to Manhattan, it’s a f–king process.

“If we were f–king black, I can guarantee you that guy would never come out and tell us put a mask on.”

Her husband, who only gave his first name, David, added, “Right, because Black Lives Matter.’’

The couple claimed to cops at one point that they both had a medical condition that exempted them from Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s mandate that people must wear masks in public if they cannot socially distance because of the coronavirus.

The man added that the captain was “shaming us,’’ saying, “Because we can’t wear a mask, we’re being discriminated against.’’

The officers asked to see proof of the pair’s medical issues that might prevent them from wearing masks, but the couple refused.

“Take them off the boat! We gotta go!’’ a male passenger shouted during the confrontation.

The pair was finally handcuffed and escorted off the boat — to cheers and claps.

“Thank you, NYPD!” several people shouted.

A police rep told The Post that the man and woman each received a summons for disorderly conduct.

“Mostly everyone complies [with the mask regulations]. And then you get a few knuckleheads who don’t,’’ a cop at the scene told Gothamist.

The woman told the site that she and her husband have already sued the MTA over being forced to wear masks on public buses and are considering suing the ferry service, also.

NYC Ferry did not immediately return a request for comment from The Post on Sunday.