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A witness in the trial of four men accused of killing an aide to Gov. Andrew Cuomo was too terrified to testify Thursday — so government prosecutors had the mother arrested and dragged into court against her will.

“I don’t want to be here,” the woman, whose name The Post is withholding, said in Brooklyn Supreme Court.

“I didn’t witness anything and I didn’t want to be a part of this.”

The woman is a resident of the Ebbets Field Houses in Crown Heights, where prosecutors say members of the Folk Nation gang opened fire on rivals the 8-Trey Crips during the 2015 J’Ouvert festival — killing Carey Gabay with a stray bullet.

At the time, prosecutors say she’d told police that the public housing building is Folk Nation territory and that she’d seen members of the gang chase down a man and beat him up around an hour before the gunfight.

But after she refused to repeat the statements for 10 minutes, prosecutors got permission from the judge to treat her as a hostile witness and grill her even harder.

“Did you tell the police when they interviewed you that you saw a group of males chasing after a light- skinned male by the Rite Aid on Bedford Avenue?” Assistant District Attorney Olantokunbo Olaniyan asked.

“I wouldn’t say I said ‘chasing.’ There was a light-skinned guy running and a crowd was following him,” the woman said.

But she refused to point her finger at the Folk Nation gang specifically.

“What I do know and what I do express is that my neighborhood is gang affiliated,” she said.

Three alleged Folk Nation members and one alleged 8-Trey Crip are on trial.

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