If You’ll Be My Bodyguard I Can Be Your Long Lost Pal

The Post story the cops want you to read this morning . . . if true, is actually really smarmy:

A key witness in the sensational police killing of Sean Bell told cops after being collared for slugging his girlfriend that he doesn’t work because he gets money from the Rev. Al Sharpton, a law-enforcement source said yesterday.

“Whatever I need they give me,” Trent Benefield, 24, told detectives Tuesday night after he was brought to the 113th Precinct station for questioning about the beating of gal pal Nyla Page Walthrus, 19, the source said.

When Benefield said he was unemployed, a detective asked him why.

“Sharpton and my lawyer don’t want me to work,” he replied, without naming the attorney, the source said.

Then how does he get by, the cop asked.

“Whatever I want they give me — whatever I need. Every month they give me whatever I need,” he boasted.

He said the amount could reach $3,000 a month.