The head of the city’s police union is calling for a boycott of an upcoming flick that includes actor Lillo Brancato, who did prison time for his role in an infamous Bronx cop-killing.
“We will never be able to forgive and forget the role that junkie Lilo [sic] Brancato played in the death of hero Police Officer Daniel Enchautegui,’’ PBA President Pat Lynch seethed in a statement Tuesday — after The Post exclusively revealed that the actor had landed his first movie role since being released from prison.
“To that end, we ask all right-thinking people not to support this thug’s acting career by avoiding this movie and any project in which he is involved,�� Lynch said.
The movie, a boxing epic called “Back in the Day,’’ is due out next spring. It features such stars as Alec Baldwin, Danny Glover and Michael Madsen.
Brancato, 38, plays the cousin of an opponent of the main character.
Brancato, who shot to fame in the Robert De Niro film “A Bronx Tale’’ and later appeared in HBO’s “The Sopranos,’’ was busted in Enchautegui’s murder in 2005.
The drug-addled actor and a cohort were burglarizing an apartment next to the off-duty cop’s, searching for prescription drugs, when Enchautegui tried to stop them. Brancato’s accomplice shot the cop dead.
Brancato did eight years behind bars before being released in 2013.
Bronx PBA delegate Joe Anthony went to the scene the night of the shooting and later befriended the hero cop’s family.
“People say you do the crime, you do the time, then you start again. That’s not the way you feel when it’s member of your family. And Danny was a member of our family,” Anthony told the Post on Tuesday.