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Even the lawyer for the cop accused of stomping on a Brooklyn man’s head during a drug bust-gone-bad in 2014 admitted his client “is no hero’’ as he gave closing arguments at the officer’s trial Thursday.

“It’s probably the only thing [that the prosecutor] said that I agree with,’’ said Anthony Ricco, the lawyer for NYPD Officer Joel Edouard.

Edouard was allegedly caught on camera assaulting Jamal Cuffee, 32, after he spotted him drinking and smoking pot in public.

Ricco said his client only “used his foot to stop [Cuffee’s] hand’’ and asserted that prosecutors relied on Photoshop to doctor pictures showing injuries to the alleged victim’s head instead.

Prosecutor Marc Fliedner lashed back, “In that moment when [Eduoard] stomped on Jamal Cuffee’s head, he was acting not as one of New York’s Finest, he was acting in vengeance and in anger. And sadly, in that moment, he was acting as a criminal.”

Edouard’s bench trial is expected to wrap up Friday, with the judge rendering a verdict.

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