A veteran RCMP officer who acted in anger while processing a shoplifting suspect at the Langley detachment has been found guilty of assault by a B.C. Supreme Court judge.

Staff Sgt. Damian Volk, a senior officer and watch commander whose job it was to oversee junior officers, was pronounced guilty after a six-day trial in September at the Vancouver Law Courts.

Video footage and the arresting officer’s account — that the handcuffed suspect, Dalibor Kuzmanovic, was compliant and not screaming — didn’t match Volk’s testimony the suspect was angry, screaming and swearing and posed a physical threat, according to the judgment by Justice John Gibb-Carsley.

Volk had testified he had to physically restrain Kuzmanovic to prevent him from head-butting or spitting or throwing his body at him, but

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