A Brooklyn community activist said the gangbanger who was arrested Wednesday for the caught-on-camera water-soaking of cops in the borough had “no malicious intent.”

“It was a little fun that went too far,” Jerome Bolden, 45, a tenant association president at a NYCHA complex on Amboy Street Brownsville said. “There was no malicious intent or anything like that.”

Courtney Thompson, 28, who sources say is a member of the Crips subset “Fresh Gangstas,” surrendered Wednesday morning at the 73rd Precinct stationhouse for his alleged involvement in Saturday’s NYPD water-drenching incident in Brownsville.

“I spoke to Courtney this morning before he turned himself in,” said Bolden, a self-described “mentor” to younger neighborhood residents. “He was scared…He was nervous and didn’t mean to do anything malicious.”

“He started getting scared there was so much media attention,” Bolden said. “There was even a wanted poster about him. He didn’t think it would be that big but that’s why he turned himself in.”

Thompson, who sources say is on probation for a 2015 robbery bust and has more than 20 prior arrests on his record, was slapped with charges of obstruction of governmental administration, criminal nuisance, criminal tampering, disorderly conduct and harassment for the weekend incident.

“It was chaotic that day. It was super hot that day and people were just wetting each other,” Bolden said. “There was no violence. It wasn’t directed towards the police.”

Online footage of the incident shows two cops in soaked uniforms walking away without making any arrests as even more water is flung at them.

Bolden claimed the officers “were actually saying ‘Wet me! Wet me!’ ” but NYPD Chief Jeffrey Maddrey of Brooklyn North denied that at the scene of the incident Wednesday, saying: “Water was thrown on them when they did not explicitly ask.”

Maddrey said the pair of cops were called to East New York Avenue on Saturday for a “disorderly group” before they were doused.

“That person should have been arrested on the spot those officers showed great restraint,” Maddrey said.

“Anyone who doesn’t ask to be wet or touched should not have to go through that,” said Maddrey. “This is more about respect. If respect was shown this would not have happened.”

Meanwhile, Thompson’s lawyer Doug Rankin told The Post that Thompson plans to plead not guilty to all the charges.

“He respects law and order,” said Rankin, who noted that Thompson’s mother is a captain with the city’s Department of Correction. “Hopefully we can get him exonerated quickly and we can put this behind us.”

Rankin also “emphatically” denied that Thompson is a gang member.

“He has one conviction resulting in a misdemeanor for which he is on probation,” said Rankin.

Bolden said Thompson is a father who went to school to be a dog-behavioral expert.

“He has been trying to get away from bad things. He’s a young man trying to do good things,” Bolden said.