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Tuesday, January 5, 2016, 11:59 AM

A professional skateboarder who smashed open a Chinatown lobster tank and hurled the clawed creatures at a brick wall is in hot water with animal rights activists.

The 22-second clip, which first surfaced on social media on Monday, shows Shawn Powers busting open the small tank with a skateboard before grabbing the crustaceans and chucking them at a nearby wall.

Metro reported that the restaurant appears to be the now-closed A-Wah II on Bowery.

Powers, who hails from Queens, says in the video, "I’ll break it, and I'll take the f----- crabs out," before busting the glass tank open.

One Twitter user described Powers as "the worst human," and urged Palace Skateboards — who sponsors the skater — to drop him.

But not everyone was so quick to bash the skater, noting the lobsters were doomed to be someone’s dinner anyway.

One person tweeted, "nothing should be done about Shawn Powers, he threw a lobster."

Powers is the only American to skate for London-based Palace Skateboards, according to Vice.

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Professional skateboarder under fire for throwing lobsters