Wild video shows NYPD helpless

Wild video shows the moment a half-dozen Bronx cops tried in vain to stop a car thief as he used a stolen van as a battering ram, continually smashing it into parked cars as he tried to escape.

The mayhem unfolded on Bainbridge Avenue in Fordham Manor around 6:20 pm on Aug. 17, when Edwings Irizarry allegedly tore off in a stolen 2009 white Ford van after shoving aside the vehicle’s 33-year-old owner, according to police.

The harrowing one-and-a-half minute clip begins as Irizarry, 45, repeatedly backs up and rams the van into a pair of parked cars, while a half-dozen cops attempt to put the brakes on his getaway