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A veteran Harlem lawmaker blasted Rep. Alexandria OcasioCortez for backing her rival in the Democratic primary and vowed that the socialist firebrand’s “defund the police” agenda will be roundly rejected.

“AOC supports defunding the police. My community opposes defunding the police,” said Assemblywoman Inez Dickens, who is seeking reelection to a fourth term after previously serving in the City Council.

Ocasio-Cortez is backing housing activist Delsenia Glover in the 70th Assembly District against incumbent Dickens.

As The Post reported Monday, AOC has endorsed a slate of insurgent candidates along with the left-wing Working Families Party in a bid to topple seven veteran incumbent Assembly Democrats, including Dickens.

The defund-the-police mantra became a rallying cry for AOC and other progressives following the police killing of George Floyd in Minneapolis in 2020.

But Republicans attacked Democratic candidates in the general election of 2020, saying the defund-the-police movement condoned lawlessness amid a spike in crime.

Some Democrats blamed the leftists’ push to defund the police with costing the party seats while Eric Adams won the New York City mayoralty last year as a foe of gutting the NYPD.

Now mainstream Democrats like Dickens, facing primaries from AOC-backed challengers from the left, are making the congresswoman eat her own words as violence has gripped the city.

Dickens said Ocasio-Cortez is out of step with Harlemites, who are fed up with crime.

“There have been so many shootings in my community. My constituents are hollering for more police. They want to be able to call the police,” Dickens said.

Dickens in March was one of the first prominent black Democratic lawmakers to publicly say the Legislature needed to tighten up the no-cash bail law to curb a crime wave and proposed a bill that would make throwing or smearing a victim with feces or other bodily fluids a felony crime — after a sicko allegedly smeared his own excrement on a woman on a Bronx subway platform.

“AOC is trying to build a political agenda my community doesn’t agree with. She’s trying to take over the Assembly. She’s trying to take over Congress,” Dickens said.

“She’s talking about her political agenda after a subway shooting, after 10 people were slaughtered in Buffalo, after an innocent 11year old was shot and killed from a guy on a scooter. Who is going to police us? We can’t have a policeless society — unless we have a junta,” Dickens said.

Dickens, 72, is part of the Harlem establishment. She followed in the footsteps of her father, Lloyd Dickens, a former state assemblyman, and uncle, Thomas

Dickens, who also was an assemblyman and a state judge.

Ocasio-Cortez had no immediate comment. But the congresswoman has often defended her support of defund the police, claiming her position has been mischaracterized.

It’s about shifting resources from law enforcement to other services to reduce poverty and prevent criminality, she said.

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