[A Formerly Proud Canadian]

Const. James Forcillo has been charged with second degree murder in the killing of a Toronto teen in July. I believe that this is just a sop to the public, who are upset that this man was shot 9 times and tasered on a streetcar. Not being a lawyer, but having briefly reviewed the Criminal Code of Canada, it seems that proving 2nd degree murder in this case, would be difficult. It would seem that 'Rambo' should have been charged with manslaughter, as he was negligent in his actions toward Yatim.

There have been multiple deaths during police operations in Toronto during the last several years, so it is a good thing that there will be an oversight investigation into the Toronto police. There is also a separate investigation on de-escalation tactics used by police in Ontario.

A follow on to this article.

[MeganC]

This was flat out murder and it’s good to see a police department go after this for a change. Usually they just say the most horrible things are ‘justifiable’ and this absolutely wasn’t.

Anyone who sees the video can see that the police officers were in no danger when the first three shots were fired. Then, after the suspect was down the cop fired SIX MORE shots into him and as if that wasn’t enough, another cop TASERED the corpse!

It was sickening and I hope justice is done.

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[brityank]

http://news.nationalpost.com/2013/08/19/toronto-police-officer-charged-with-second-degree-murder-in-streetcar-shooting-death-of-sammy-yatim/

has two Youtube videos - three shots, then six more (and the body twitching in response), then another officer moves in and uses a tazer.

Not often I think this - but I believe the cop should be charged with murder. He went way beyond shoot to stop.