Disturbing cellphone video shows an ex-con wanted in a water-bucket attack on NYPD cops boldly challenging officers who tracked him down in The Bronx — then bolting when they went to place him under arrest.

The brazen display of contempt for the NYPD emerged Tuesday, one day after Police Commissioner James O’Neill fired Daniel Pantaleo over the fatal arrest of Eric Garner in 2014.

The video shows Keith Ford, who’s on parole for an attempted-robbery conviction, shouting angrily as three plainclothes members of the NYPD’s Bronx Warrant Squad attempt to put him in handcuffs, according to a law-enforcement source familiar with the incident.

“What is this for?” Ford, 28, repeatedly demands near the start of the two-minute clip.

When Ford — who’s 6-feet-5 and 255 pounds — shakes off one cop, a struggle ensues and the cops wind up facing off against Ford as he stood with his back to an iron fence.

After one cop draws a Taser, Ford pretends to give up and places his hands behind his back, only to turn and sprint away when the other two cops move in for the bust.

The cop fires the Taser, but Ford appears to yank the barb from his clothing as he leads the cops on a chase down the block and around a corner, where the clip shows him up being placed under arrest against a wall.

Ford was charged with two counts of criminal mischief, obstructing governmental administration and disorderly conduct in the July 21 dousing of two uniformed cops at the corner of Boston Road and East 173rd St.

That incident was one of several that took place during last month’s heatwave, and which led to criticism of Mayor de Blasio from President Trump and others.

Ford was granted $1 bail at his arraignment but ordered held for allegedly violating terms of his parole, records show.

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