A 9-year-old disabled boy who was thrown from his wheelchair by a school bully is set to get the royal treatment from New York City cops — who will escort him on the ultimate tour of the Big Apple, officers said Wednesday.
Little Michael Martinez of Houston, Texas, was dressed like one of his heroes — a police officer — on career day at his school when a bully shook him and tossed him from the chair last year, according to FOX 26.
Officers from Blue Lives Matter NYC now plan to take Michael — who hopes to one day become a cop himself — around the city Thursday and Friday, with stops ranging from meeting Mayor Eric Adams and Cardinal Timothy Dolan to grabbing a slice of pizza and attending roll call at an NYPD station house on Staten Island.
“This little boy is absolutely special,” said Joseph Imperatrice, founder of Blue Lives Matter NYC, to The Post. “We want to give him a front-row ticket to the greatest show on earth: seeing New York City.
“We want to help kids going through a hard time,” he added.
On his first-ever trip to Gotham, Michael — who has cerebral palsy caused by a premature birth at 27 weeks — will also go with police to Times Square and to the offices of the federal Drug Enforcement Administration, according to the non-profit.
In February 2021, Michael became a hero, too.
He reportedly saved some family members from a carbon-monoxide leak by crawling into their bedroom in the middle of the night and alerting them that a detection device was beeping, the local station KHOU reported at the time.
But he had trouble the next year at school when a classmate began picking on him, said his mom, Angie Martinez.
“[The bully] just kind of put his hands on him, shook him a little bit and kind of threw him to the side off of his wheelchair,” she told FOX 26.
When local cops, including from the Houston Police Department, heard about the incident, they gave him a special tour of their vehicles and visited him for lunch in March 2022.
“After seeing what happened to Michael, there are a lot of people in New York and Texas who look up to him,” Imperatrice said.