The “chaotic” brawl outside a popular Midtown Manhattan restaurant during which New York Jets cornerback Kris Boyd was shot and critically wounded was sparked when a group “chirped” at the NFL player and his companions about their stylish clothes, NYPD Chief of Detectives Joseph Kenny said at a press briefing on Thursday.

Boyd, 29, his teammates Irvin Charles and Jamien Sherwood and a friend from Boyd’s native Texas whose birthday they were celebrating pulled up to the Asian-fusion “speakeasy” and celeb hotspot Sei Less on W. 38th St. near Seventh Ave. around 2 a.m. on Sunday in a Cadillac Escalade, Kenny said. As they entered the restaurant, a group of four to five men standing outside “begin to ‘chirp’ (at) them about the clothing that they’re wearing, and are asking them,

‘What,

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