Agitator ‘not in right mind’

‘Personifies’ crisis: Eric

Mayor Adams on Friday blamed the shocking rush-hour shooting onboard a Brooklyn subway car on an agitator suffering from “severe mental-health” issues, as he pushed for legislation that would allow police to institutionalize mentally unstable people.

Adams claimed the 36-year-old aggressor, identified as Dajuan Robinson, was not “in the proper frame of mind” when he was filmed brawling with another man and was shot by his own gun onboard an A train as it pulled into the Hoyt-Schermerhorn Street station Thursday night.

“When I looked at this tape and broke it down piece by piece and frame by frame, it is clear that it personifies what our pursuit is involved around those with severe mental-health illnesses,” he told NY1. “And as the investigation unfolds, we’re going to see the nexus between the actions that took place there and the many of the random acts of violence that just unnerves New Yorkers.”

He also called the suspect one of “far too many people suffering severe mental-health” problems on PIX 11. In fact, half of the nearly 40 perps busted for attacking MTA staff in the subway last year had histories of mental illness.

Of the 38 people charged with 41 separate assaults on underground workers, 20 of them had at least five arrests to their names and documented psychological problems, a Post investigation found.

The woman who made headlines earlier this month when she was accused of whacking a cello performer over the head with a bottle was institutionalized several times, Adams said in his NY1 appearance.

There are “some real, severe mental-health illnesses” driving these acts of violence that are making New Yorkers feel increasingly less safe on the transit system, he said.

Adams has been pushing for a bill in Albany to make it easier to admit mentally ill people to the hospital. He has also been pressuring state lawmakers to expand Kendra’s Law, which allows the court system to force people with mental illness who are “unlikely to survive safely in the community without supervision” to get outpatient assistance.

“We need to give law enforcement the help they need,” Adams said on NY1.