A Buffalo cop facing two years in prison for kicking a man in handcuffs in an incident captured on video was handed probation today on the condition that he will serve as a role model for other officers inclined to beat citizens.

John Cirulli also threatened to arrest the man who had video recorded the incident if he did not delete the footage, but that tidbit apparently wasn't part of the charges the 31-year-old was facing.

Cirulli, who resigned from the force shortly after video of the April incident went viral, admitted he took the man's phone, checked it for a recording and handed it back when he found nothing.

But that was only because the man who recorded the incident handed the cop a different phone that did not contain the recording, fooling the cop into thinking nothing had been recorded.

Thanks to that experience, Cirulli is now an authority on the "dangers of civil rights violations" and is working with the FBI in providing training sessions to other cops on what not to do.

Evidently, this is something that is not addressed in the police academy.