Sammy Yatim - Teen Killed in Interaction with Toronto Police

[Muzna]

Re: Sammy Yatim - Teen Killed in Interaction with Toronto Police

@Enterprise

Shooting people in the legs only happens in the reel life.

People should take target practice courses and heavy stress induced practice courses to see how hard to do it is in real life.

You should also see youtube videos on how quickly a knife wielding man can move often before an armed man with a gun can even react.

Understood.
I’m sure that this not my area of expertise…but if you see the video accounts of the whole thing it seems that everything started and ended in less than 10 minutes. From the guy becoming irate, the bus emptying to all 9 shots being delivered. There was no real attempt at de-escalation…particularly when there was no immediate threat to anyone’s life: the guy was on board the street car at a safe distance from more than a dozen cops.

More video has been released showing Yatim on the floor of the street car after the first three shots were fired at him. He lies there and his legs, which appear to be propped up due to the position of his fall, eventually collapse…and THEN another 6 shots are emptied at him. Still doesn’t make sense to me.

What we do know is that the entire incident transpired in about 10 minutes. Just after midnight, Yatim reportedly stood up and b*****shed a knife on the 505 streetcar on Dundas Street West near Trinity Bellwoods Park.

A few minutes later, police arrived at the scene. At that point, Yatim was alone on the stationary streetcar. A standoff quickly ensued, and within the space of 13 seconds one officer had fired nine shots.

http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/story/2013/07/30/f-toronto-streetcar-shooting-questions.html