A busty brunette says cops trampled on her God-given — and perfectly legal — right to flaunt what Mother Nature gave her when they arrested her for going topless in a Brooklyn park and forced her to cover up.
Jessica Krigsman, 24, a burlesque dancer who performs a fire-eating bondage act under the name Nikki Talis, filed suit Tuesday against the NYPD and the two officers who arrested her in July 2012.
Krigsman, of Gravesend, had taken off her shirt while relaxing on a bench in Calvert Vaux Park when the cops walked over and told her to cover up, according to her Brooklyn Supreme Court lawsuit.
“She was minding her own business, sunbathing, and they approached her aggressively,” said Krigsman’s lawyer, Stuart Jacobs. “They asked for ID and told her to put on her shirt.”
Krigsman told The Post Tuesday that she will continue to go topless in public.
“I’m going to take my top off whenever I want,” she said in an interview at her Brooklyn apartment.
“I just like the way the sun feels against my skin.”
Krigsman, who has posted pictures of her body covered only in paint online, said she was flabbergasted that the cops were hassling her — because being topless outdoors in New York is legal.
“I’m like, what? Haven’t you heard of People v. Santorelli?” Krigsman said she told the cops, citing the 1992 state Court of Appeals decision that a woman can be topless anywhere a man is allowed to be bare-chested. “This has been legal since the ’90s. Call your supervisor!”
One of the cops told her to “stop mouthing off” and threatened her with arrest, court papers say.
“The female cop picked up Jessica’s shirt and forced it onto her,” Jacobs said. “She didn’t resist in any way or fight in any way. They arrested her and cuffed her and took her to the precinct.”
“The female cops hate to see topless women,” Krigsman explained. “The guys are always cool with it.”
Krigsman said the officers added insult to injury when they shackled her with pink cuffs, then held her for five hours.
She was eventually charged with “obstruction of a sitting area,” but the rap was dropped three months later, according to the suit.
The female officer, who was identified as Colleen Canavan, was awarded “Cop of the Month” in 2008.
On Krigsman’s Nikki Talis Facebook page, she is seen performing at the Mystic Circus Sideshow in Bushwick, where she stripteases and eats fire while straddling a man whose hands are tied and is bond to a chair.
A description for the event reads: “Prepare to be strange, prepare to be altered! There will be nudity, blood, vulgarity and many other unspeakable things.”
Krigsman dismissed puritans who don’t want to see her naked bosoms. Her suit seeks unspecified damages plus attorney fees.
“People would say, ‘Well what about the children?’ ” Krigsman said. “Well, to that I say, ‘Where do you think they came from?’ ”
Here is a video of Krigsman during one of her burlesque performances: