Monday, July 29, 2013

Pastor Jacob Birch and the Sammy Yatim Shooting

Here is 20 minutes old footage of a protest outside Toronto Police Service 14 Division tonight in response to the police shooting of Syrian-Canadian Sammy Yatim over the weekend on a TTC streetcar.

Other on-the-scene videos (which you can go find yourself, i won't post it here out of reverence for Sammy's life) show Sammy in the streetcar and police repeatedly telling him to put his knife down. After a verbal altercation you see and hear 3 shots then another 6 shots and finally a taser discharge before 5 officers enter the streetcar to apprehend Mr. Yatim. The young Syrian-Canadian died in hospital a short time later.

The "memorial" that protesters painted at the scene of the shooting.
Some of his friends had these shirts on....


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