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State Sen. Samra Brouk and advocate Harvey Rosenthal recently applauded the pending New York budget for many of its included mental health initiatives. They’re right to do so, especially for the investments in psychiatric inpatient capacity. But Brouk and Rosenthal falsely suggest the state’s important Assisted Outpatient Treatment law has resulted in “glaring disparate racial impacts” for having more Black and Hispanic participants.

Malik Rahman, 54, overdosed Aug. 25 after another arrested suspect slipped a baggie of the highly toxic drug past three pat-down searches by cops in the South Bronx’s 40th Precinct stationhouse.

A 19-year-old Rikers Island detainee was beaten and repeatedly slashed after correction staff moved him to a chaotic unit where other detainees somehow got into his locked cell in the predawn hours and left him unconscious and bleeding on the floor, his mother tells the Daily News.

The victim was walking with another man on Grassmere Terrace near Ocean Crest Blvd. in Far Rockaway when gunshots rang out just before 8:15 p.m., cops said.

“I saw the blood,” Teno Aiken, 40, told the Daily News about the moment he realized daughter Teira had been struck. “I just break down right from there."