The NYPD has suspended the officers who launched into a foul-mouthed back-and-forth with a man said to be in distress that was seen in a viral video earlier in the week.

The officers were identified as Transit Bureau Police Officers Michael McPhee, 39, and Paul Chaves, 53.

The pair will likely face departmental charges for using their patrol car's public address speakers, police sources told the New York Daily News.

Both officers are department veterans. McPhee has been with the NYPD for 14 years while Chaves has been on the force since 2000.

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Footage from the alarming ordeal was filmed on Wednesday and shared to Twitter the next day, showing a nearly empty Midtown Manhattan street

The suspension comes after officers were seen shouting obscenities near Eighth Avenue and West 49th Street.

The brief clip, shared by activist Eliel Cruz, has been viewed more than 700,000 times after it was shared on Thursday.

A distressed man can be seen making his way down the street as police drive slowly in their patrol car.

An officer soon get on the intercom and tell the man to 'shut the f**k up,' as he begins making an assortment of unintelligible remarks.

A policeman repeatedly tells the man to shut up and the two go back and forth. The patrol car pulls over to the side of the road so the officer can continue his verbal onslaught.

The cop can be heard screaming an assortment of derogatory remarks to the man, repeatedly demanding that he shut up.

Soon the officer tells the man to 'eat a fat one' - referring to a penis - and tells him to then suck it as well.

A man can be seen making his way down the street as police drive slowly in their patrol car

Police can be heard shouting at the man and making multiple derogatory statements towards him

The officer threatens to 'smack the s**t' out of the man as the two continue shouting back and forth.

As the police leave, the cop tells the man to 'lick' his testicles.

In a statement shared later on Thursday, the NYPD said the incident occurred while the officers were patrolling in Midtown Manhattan.

'This incident was put under investigation immediately and that internal investigation will be conducted as expeditiously as possible,' they added in the statement.