RE- ACTIVE- ATED

Garner-scene cop back on duty after NYPD ‘renege’

The NYPD sergeant in charge of the scene where Eric Garner was killed in 2014 was told she could finally return to active duty — only to have police bosses renege on the deal when she showed up for her gun on Friday, sources said.

When The Post reported on Sgt. Kizzy Adonis’ plight online hours later, the decision was reversed again, and her status was restored.

Adonis (inset), a 15-year veteran, had been in departmental limbo on desk duty since Garner’s July 17, 2014, death on a Staten Island sidewalk. She had never been charged criminally or by the NYPD in the case, which sparked anti-police protests around the nation.

On Thursday, Adonis was issued a new, laminated NYPD ID card as a full-duty sergeant — and she was recertified at the policeshooting range in preparation for getting her gun back, said Ed Mullins, president of the Sergeants Benevolent Association.

She showed up at 1 Police Plaza on Friday expecting to learn her new precinct assignment and collect her service weapon.

Instead, she was told she was still on “modified duty” — and officials took back the ID card, Mullins said.

The Post asked the NYPD for an explanation, and a spokesman would only con- firm her modified status.

By late Friday afternoon, her fullduty ID was suddenly reinstated, though she had yet to be assigned to a new job or get her gun back.

“Amazingly, The Post ran the story and the sergeant was fully restored,” Mullins said. “Clearly the story had an impact to the decision making.”

Mullins earlier complained about the NYPD’s waffling.

“I think this is indecisiveness on behalf of this department,” he said.

“There is clearly a lack of leadership. They’re messing with someone’s life.”

Adonis could still be hit with an NYPD charge of failing to supervise the scene.

But any departmental case against Adonis and accused chokehold cop Officer Daniel Pantaleo has been on ice for four years, pending a possible federal prosecution.

It’s not clear when that will happen.

As recently as April, federal prosecutors were split on whether charges should be brought in the case.

The NYPD declined Friday night to comment on Adonis’ apparent reversal of fortune.

But Mullins is chalking it all up to miscommunication.

“The brass has no idea what they’re doing,” he said. “They’re like the gang that couldn’t shoot straight.”