‘Amazing’ security guard fights off masked punks at lux SoHo shop in wild video: ‘You step up, or you step down’

‘Amazing’ security guard fights off masked punks at lux SoHo shop in wild video: ‘You step up, or you step down’

A superhero security guard fought off a pair of masked punks trying to rob a hip SoHo boutique Monday — with the wild scuffle caught on dramatic surveillance video.

Tyrell Gibbs, 34, told The Post he was working the door at the trendy luxury resale shop Rebelonging for fewer than than two weeks when the brazen crime unfolded — and led him to tap into his boyhood experience as a tight end and receiver on the football field to shut down the illegal rush.

“You meet them at the line of scrimmage,” said Gibbs, who has an eight-year resume in security and hotel service — and the physique and face to land him modeling jobs, too.

Hero security guard Tyrell Gibbs blocks the door from a crew of wannabe robbers at a hip SoHo resale shop Monday. Instagram / @rebelonging
Gibbs told The Post he used former football training to beat back the criminals. Instagram / @rebelonging

“That’s what we were doing — I felt like if I met them at that point and addressed them there, that he would go away versus me allowing them to come to me,” Gibbs said of the battle at the Manhattan store’s entrance.

“I just know that in sports, either you step up, or you step down.

“My thing was to react,” said Gibbs, who was born in Brooklyn and grew up in Harlem playing for the Harlem Knights youth football league.

“It wasn’t to even fight,” said the guard — whose employer hailed him as “amazing.”

“I didn’t want to harm them, and I didn’t want to harm anybody else, but keeping every body safe, just creating a boundary between myself, the door and the open space of the door.”

The 34-year-old models when he’s not working security gigs. William Farrington

The violent encounter unfolded shortly before 3 p.m. at the West Broadway shop, when a girl wearing a head scarf and dark sunglasses entered the store, and the guard held the front door for her, according to footage posted by the boutique on Instagram.

Then all hell broke loose.

Two masked punks tried to bum-rush the door, but Gibbs would have no part of it — with footage showing him rebuffing them like an NFL lineman, shoving them away till they gave up and high-tailed it down the street.

Gibbs noted that in middle school, he suited up with the Knights and later played basketball — which he said “absolutely” helped prepare him for the face-off with the wannabe crooks.

Gibbs said he was “just trying to keep that door closed” during the ordeal. Instagram / @rebelonging

“I’m just trying to keep that door closed,” he said. “It was hectic.”

The girl who entered earlier then scooted past the guard and ran off.

The crew “fled on West Broadway down towards Canal St around 2:52-2:57PM in a white Acura. (We are looking for their license plate and any information connected),” the store said in Instagram.

“We have only been open for a week and this is extremely frustrating but we need to get to the bottom of this to prevent this from happening to other businesses,” the shop said.

“Thank you to our amazing security for keeping us safe we are truly so grateful.”

Gibbs lamented the uptick in crime in the city recent years.

“Petty larceny, car robberies. A couple of things, like fraud and all types of stuff like that. Petty crimes, but all about money,” he said.

“I feel like it’s an economy-based thing. It’s been a real tough go for a lot of people coming off the pandemic, so I can only imagine what’s really going on in the household. A lot of these people I’m encountering during these situations are very young.

“Some people have not aged out of the situation that they’re in.”

Additional reporting by Bill Farrington

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