PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) — A suspended Providence police sergeant has been convicted of assaulting a handcuffed man during an arrest last year.

Sgt. Joseph Hanley was sentenced Thursday to a year of probation and ordered to take anger management classes by Judge Brian Goldman, who called Hanley’s testimony during the bench trial a “total fabrication.”

Prosecutors had sought a year behind bars.

Hanley was charged with misdemeanor simple assault for punching, kicking, and kneeling on the head of Rishod Gore as he lay on the ground last April.

The incident was captured on video. Charges against Gore were later dismissed.