It’s time that the society must understand the
police are committing daily the most heinous crimes to vulnerable citizens
across the country. Their psychopathic minds and state of terror involving
brutality and assassinations are causing people to live in fear, not to mention
also the police forces that should serve and protect us.
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LIVE: Const. James Forcillo to get at least 5 years in
Sammy Yatim shooting
Judge rejects defence argument that
mandatory minimum sentence is unconstitutional, says he has no choice but to
sentence Toronto police officer to at least five years in prison.
By Alyshah HashamStaff Reporter
Thu., July 28, 2016
Toronto police Const. James Forcillo
must be sentenced to at least five years in prison for the attempted murder of
18-year-old Sammy Yatim on an empty Dundas streetcar in July
2013, a judge ruled Thursday.
Justice Edward Then is delivering
the sentence in a Toronto courtroom now.
Forcillo faced a mandatory minimum
sentence of five years for attempted murder with a restricted firearm.
Then began his decision by rejecting
an argument that the mandatory minimum sentence violates Forcillo’s
constitutional rights.
The defence had argued the minimum sentence is unconstitutional since
Forcillo was acting in “excessive self-defence” while carrying out his duties
as a police officer. They said the mandatory minimum sentence should be
overturned so Forcillo can serve a two-year sentence on house arrest.
The Crown had asked for a sentence
of eight to 10 years, arguing that Forcillo failed in his duty of care to Yatim by
not using the de-escalation techniques he was trained in.
Forcillo and his partner were the
first officers to arrive at the streetcar after police received a call about a
young man with a knife on a streetcar.
At the end of a minute-long standoff
that lasted less than a minute and captured on security and bystander videos,
Forcillo shot Yatim three times, paused for five seconds, then shot him again
six times.
The first set of shots struck Yatim
in his spine, paralyzing him, in his arm and, fatally, in his heart. Of the
second volley, five out of six shots struck Yatim’s lower body as he lay dying
on the floor of the streetcar.
After a four-month trial that ended
in January, a jury acquitted Forcillo of second-degree murder, finding the
first round of shots was justifiable or in self-defence. However, they found
him guilty of attempted murder for the second round of shots – a set of
verdicts described by many as a “compromise.”
Forcillo has already filed a notice
of appeal for his conviction. The appeal argues that the jury should not have
been allowed to consider the murder charge and attempted murder as separate
offences because both charges stem from one continuous act, and as result the
verdicts are inconsistent.
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police officer James Forcillo found not guilty of second-degree murder and
manslaughter after firing two volleys of shots at knife-wielding 18-year-old
Sammy Yatim in empty streetcar.
The appeal also argued that Then
erred by refusing to allow the defence to present certain pieces of evidence to
the jury, including testimony on “suicide-by-cop.”
It’s time that the society must understand the
police are committing daily the most heinous crimes to vulnerable citizens
across the country. Their psychopathic minds and state of terror involving
brutality and assassinations are causing people to live in fear, not to mention
also the police forces that should serve and protect us.
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