“Second charge
laid against Toronto cop in Sammy Yatim shooting”
Canada is a
country of heinous crimes of grief and mourning, a land of human misery without
any hope. An ocean of human tragedy, that their fierce waves drag millions of
shattered lives.
- Nadir Siguencia
- Nadir Siguencia
Taliban's - AlQueda's - Nine bullets in the humanity of the young Sammy Yatim, and the feast
of the vultures was still going on when the dying boy was again tasered by the
police. PUBLIC EXECUTION?
Second,
third, fourth,... charges laid against the assassin of Sammy Yatim is a complete
circus, once again the office of the Crown Attorney is trying to manipulate the
public and create an insight that the justice is served. The truth is: the videos
of Sammy Yatim execution which was uploaded in “You tube” is showing to the
world that the officer James Forcillo is murdering Sammy Yatim; in cold blood
for the reason that the young Sammy was behaving with improper words learned in
the Canadian elementary and secondary schools. Also the officer is showing that
he was trained to kill even when the victim was not representing any danger in
the lives of the police. Sammy Yatim he was massacred like so many defenseless
people who were murdered in previous occasions by their fellow officers. With
the help of the media are trying to convince us, that every victim from the
Police Academy of Assassins them were suffering of mental illness? The murder
of Sammy Yatim at the hands of the executioner officer James Forcillo; again is
other crime for the impunity books. Actually the Canadian Justice System has
proved that it is a complete corrupted system, their mission is to protect dangerous criminals which are
causing more victims of police brutality and killings.
POLICE BRUTALITY: Toronto Cops Tackle & Kill Mentally Disabled Man For Nothing
Second charge
laid against Toronto cop in Sammy Yatim shooting
Const. James Forcillo had already been
charged with second-degree murder in the death of the teenager on a streetcar
last summer. Nathan Denette / THE CANADIAN PRESS FiLE PHOTO
Const.
James Forcillo, left, shown with his wife Irina in June, is now facing charges
of both second-degree murder and attempted murder. By:
Marco Chown Oved Staff Reporter, Published on Wed
Jul 30 2014 The
Toronto officer charged with second-degree murder in the streetcar shooting of Sammy
Yatim last summer has been charged again. On
Wednesday, the Crown revealed that it had added the charge of attempted murder
to the indictment of Const. James Forcillo, leaving him in an apparent
contradiction: prosecutors claim he both murdered and attempted to murder the
Toronto teen.
Yatim was killed after brandishing a small knife on the Dundas streetcar
last July. Once passengers evacuated the TTC vehicle, several police officers
approached the open front doors and ordered Yatim to drop the knife. Several videos of the event show a single officer
— later identified as Forcillo — firing nine times, leaving the boy crumpled on
the floor. Yatim was then Tasered and handcuffed before being taken to
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Calvin Barry, who has worked both sides of murder trials — first as a
Crown prosecutor and now as a defence lawyer — says he’s never seen a person
charged with murder and attempted murder in the same case. “It could have the
effect of creating a charge to the jury which would be somewhat complex
“In the law, an attempted
murderer is just a lucky murderer,” said criminal defence lawyer Nader Hasan,
who is not involved in the case. “An attempted murder involves all the same
intent, but the victim doesn’t die. Yet in this case, the victim did die.”
Characterizing it as a
“pretty clear case of second-degree murder,” Hasan said the Crown could be
opening up the door for a plea bargain.
Because second-degree murder
carries a mandatory life sentence with no parole for 10 years, while attempted
murder means a mandatory five years, “it may provide an opportunity for the
officer to plead to something lesser than murder,” said Hasan.
Toronto Police Association
president Mike McCormack disagrees, saying the Crown has indicated it will be
fully prosecuting the case.
“No plea is happening here,”
McCormack said.
Another theory is that the Crown is concerned that it won’t
be able to prove Yatim died from the bullets.
“In order to prove second-degree
murder, the Crown has to prove not only that Const. Forcillo had the required
intent and carried out this intent by shooting at Sammy Yatim, but also that
his shooting caused Sammy Yatim’s death,” wrote Gerald Chan, a criminal defence
lawyer who isn’t involved in the case.
Yatim’s
cause of death might turn out to be heart failure, which could be attributed to
the Tasering, said Brian Heller, another uninvolved criminal lawyer. “So he might have
died from the Tasering before he died from the shots,” Heller said. In this way,
Forcillo’s lawyers may try to argue that he didn’t cause Yatim’s death and the Crown
would have to fall back on attempted murder.
“Might the sustaining of the shots have diminished his capacity to
withstand the force of the Tasering?” Heller asked. After a court appearance Wednesday morning,
Forcillo’s lawyer, Lawrence Gridin, said the
new charge indicates weakness in the Crown’s case.
“The Crown’s changing theory just highlights that this case
is by no means clear-cut, and we are looking forward to presenting a strong
defence,” Gridin wrote in an email to the Star. McCormack
claimed the two charges are contradictory.
“We’re scratching our heads; the public is scratching their
heads; no one understands it,” he said. “To us, it’s like throwing all sorts of
stuff at the wall and seeing what sticks.”
After
discussing the case with Forcillo’s lawyers, McCormack speculated that the new
charge might reflect the officer having felt threatened by Yatim.
“It seems Forcillo could have been justified in firing some
but not all of the shots,” he said. The
second charge comes only days after the one-year anniversary of the shooting.
Last weekend, Yatim’s father, Nabil (Bill) said in a statement that his son “did not deserve to die this way.”
With files from Alyshah Hasham and
Laura Armstrong.
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