A Toronto police officer has been found guilty of assault causing bodily harm after breaking a cyclist's shoulder during a rough arrest in October 2017.
Justice Susan Chapman found Constable Douglas Holmes used excessive force when he shoved Oliver Santiago to the ground face first from behind after a traffic stop.
Chapman says in her decision delivered last Friday that Holmes was frustrated and annoyed with Santiago for not immediately handing over his identification.
Holmes asked the cyclist for identification three times and then moved quickly to place handcuffs on him.
Then Holmes shoved the cyclist from behind and Santiago fell face first and broke his shoulder and toe.
The officer then grabbed the man's wallet from his pocket and wrote him a ticket.
Holmes's defence argued that he was doing his job and following his training because Santiago was resisting arrest.
But the Crown argued Holmes used excessive force during a relatively minor infraction.