PITTSBURGH — A Pittsburgh woman testified that three white plainclothes police officers did not ask whether she knew a young black man or whether he had permission to be on her property the night the man claims he was wrongly arrested and beaten.

Monica Wooding’s testimony came Tuesday in the federal civil rights trial of a lawsuit against the officers by 20-year-old Jordan Miles. “I wasn’t asked that,” Wooding testified, explaining she knew Miles and his family well.

One of the officers had previously testified at a hearing on Miles’ criminal charges that police held a flashlight up to Miles’ face that night and that Wooding denied knowing him or giving him permission to be there.

Miles was arrested Jan. 12, 2010, on charges of assaulting police officers, loitering and prowling at night, resisting arrest and escape because the officers claim he fought with them, elbowing one in the head and kicking another in the knee, and tried to get away as they approached in an unmarked car at 11 p.m.

The officers contend they stopped only because it appeared Miles was prowling near Wooding’s home and had positioned his body as though he were hiding a bulging coat pocket that made them concerned that he had a gun.

A city judge threw out the criminal charges against Miles when Wooding testified at a preliminary hearing in March 2010.