Fired up by a senseless race-motivated hassle from Michigan police, he resorted to throwing violent elbows at white teammates in practice.
Spitting carries an automatic six-game suspension and Cissé's ban is likely to be extended since he was charged with violent conduct for elbowing the Everton full-back, Séamus Coleman, earlier in the season.
In a match that finished in a 2 2 draw, Sol Campbell received a straight red card for violent conduct after elbowing Ole Gunnar Solskjær in the face.
The FA director of governance Darren Bailey said: "This enables the FA to consider acts of violent conduct, like an elbow or a stamp, which have occurred after a challenge for the ball or coming together of players.
The offence carries an automatic six-game suspension and Cissé's ban is likely to be extended as the Senegal striker accepted a violent conduct charge for elbowing Everton's Séamus Coleman in December.
The bad news for Ranieri is that it looks increasingly likely his team will be without Danny Drinkwater for their next three matches, with the England midfielder set to be charged with violent conduct after appearing to elbow Watford's Valon Behrami during the 2-1 defeat at Vicarage Road on Saturday.
The primary focus was to punish violent conduct of the "sly elbow" kind that the television cameras were spotting but sometimes the referee was not.
Maybe you still gather together in tiny groups to recount the violent tangle of teeth and elbows you had to endure in order to board the train, or how you slowly lost all feeling in your cheek after spending three hours having it pressed flat against a grubby window by a gang of tutting backpackers.
Cisse's punishment could be even greater, given he was sent off for violent conduct in December for elbowing Everton's Seamus Coleman.
Instruction came in the form of assault: blows to the keyboard with elbows, forearms and palms, episodes violent to the point that Marc Ponthus, the evening's intrepid pianist, wore cut-off gloves as a kind of body armor.
