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” 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 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’ them about the clothing that they’re wearing, and are asking them, ‘What, do you think you’re better than us?’” Kenny sa

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