Why Should We Fear the Police? Is it Because the Police brutality and Assassinations, and the Justice System that is not Following the Rules of Law to Serve and Protec Us?

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.

Warning: Graphic content. Toronto 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.

  Academies of Assassins

  Academies of Assassins