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A Toronto police officer is to be sentenced in June after threatening two men with a taser.

Reports say Const. Christopher Hominuk pleaded guilty to one count of threatening bodily harm.

In-car video entered as an exhibit in the trial of shows an officer using the weapon to try to extract information from the men.

The men were being detained while officers investigated a theft in west-end Toronto last May.

The video shows an officer holding a taser to a handcuffed man's neck in the back of a police cruiser, then threatening to taser the genitals of a second man in another cruiser.

Court was told neither man was actually tasered.

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