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The wife of an emotionally disturbed man killed in a police-involved shooting tearfully testified Wednesday that she was more concerned for his well-being than her own when she called 911.

Ana Martinez told jurors she was worried about hubby Mauricio Jaquez, 35, who was foaming at the mouth and ranting about ­demons in April 2009.

“Were you scared he was going to hurt you?” asked her ­lawyer, Zachary Margulis-Ohnuma.

“Never,” she said at the civil trial of a cop who fired the last of five shots at Jaquez. “The reason I was scared [was because] my husband had a similar relapse previously where he was acting the same way.”

A Manhattan judge ruled that four of five bullets that hit knife-wielding Jaquez were reasonable. Sgt. William Flores, who fired the fifth, is accused of excessive force.

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