A federal judge has tossed a police brutality lawsuit filed by a Big Apple protester who claimed she was roughed up by cops during a demonstration — after NYPD bodycam showed she made it all up.

Kimberly Bernard claimed she was manhandled by New York’s Finest on May 8, 2023, and was left bruised, battered and bleeding outside an NYPD stationhouse while protesting the subway chokehold death of vagrant Jordan Neely one week earlier, court records show.

But US District Court Judge Denise Cote said in her Aug. 28 decision that police bodycam footage and eyewitness accounts didn’t back up Bernard’s story — and dismissed the claims. 5

“Bernard’s claims of excessive force are utterly discredited by the body camera footage submitted in connection with this motion,” the judge wrote in the

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