Former Honolulu police officer Vincent Morre apologized in U.S. District Court on Friday to his family, his former fellow police officers and to the two men he assaulted in an illegal gambling house last year while on duty.

After the apologies, U.S. District Judge J. Michael Seabright sentenced Morre to 30 months in prison for using his authority as a police officer to assault the gambling house patrons.

Game room security cameras captured the assaults and recorded them on video.

Morre, 37, has until after the holidays to turn himself in to begin serving his sentence.

His lawyer David Hayakawa said Morre accepts his sentence and deeply regrets his actions and the impact they have had on everyone, especially his former colleagues.

“And he hopes that by taking immediate responsibility he can help everyone move on from this,” Hayakawa said.

Morre pleaded guilty in May to two counts of depriving the constitutional rights of a person while acting under color of law.

Another former police officer, Nelson Tamayori, and a former reserve officer, Joseph Becera, are scheduled to be sentenced in U.S. District Court later this month for failing to report the assaults.

Morre apologized to them as well.

“I did this. They shouldn’t have to go through this,” he said.

Tamayori and Morre resigned from the Honolulu Police Department on June 30. They later recorded a department training video telling police recruits not to do what they did.

One of the assault victims, Jordon Topinio, testified Friday that he and the other victim, Francisco Franson, didn’t say or do anything to provoke Morre. He said Morre walked up to them and told them to “Take your f——-g hat off when I talk to you guys.”

Topinio said Morre then slapped the hat off his head and kicked him in the face.

The video later shows Morre slap, punch and kick Franson, kick Topinio in the face a second time, then throw a metal stool at Topinio, opening a gash on Topinio’s head.

Topinio testified Friday that he is afraid of retaliation from other officers.

After his testimony, deputy U.S. Marshals took Topinio into custody on outstanding state warrants for failing to report to his probation officer. Topinio had pleaded guilty and no contest in 2013 to two separate car break-ins.

His lawyer, Myles Breiner, said he was not aware of the warrants. Breiner said that because of Topinio’s fear of retaliation, he asked the deputy marshals to take Topinio directly to Oahu Community Correctional Center instead of to HPD headquarters.

Tamayori also testified Friday. He said that 10 to 15 minutes after he, Morre and Becera left the game room, Morre got a call from their sergeant asking them about the incident, because someone at the game room had called an ambulance for Topinio. Other police officers also responded to the scene.

Morre, Tamayori and Becera,  as members of a plainclothes Crime Reduction Unit, went to the game room to look for a forgery suspect. They did not find the suspect in the game room.

Topinio and Tamayori testified as government witnesses in the sentencing hearing to support the government’s assertion that Morre’s attacks represented aggravated assault, worthy of a potential higher penalty than if they had been regular assaults.

Seabright said after seeing the video, he deemed the attacks as aggravated assaults by any standard because there was no reason for Morre to pick up the stool, as it was not in his way.

He said Morre stopped to pick up the stool after having just kicked Topinio in the face and taking just a few steps away.

And Seabright said Morre grabbed the stool with both hands, then forcefully threw it at Topinio while looking directly at him.