"Hundreds attend ‘Justice for Sammy’ protest against fatal streetcar shooting"

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Hundreds attend ‘Justice for Sammy’ protest against fatal streetcar shooting

VIDYA KAURI at The Globe and Mail

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/toronto/hundreds-of-protesters-march-against-fatal-streetcar-shooting/article13492101/?utm_medium=Newsletter&utm_source=The%20Globe%20and%20Mail&utm_type=text&utm_content=TheGlobeandMail&utm_campaign=106436269

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“We don’t think the way Sammy died is right and justified in any way. I am, was, one of Sammy’s close friends,” said Anita, one of the girls with the loudspeaker and a close friend of Mr. Yatim’s who did not want to give her last name. “The way he died is so unjustified. It’s unexplainable. They [the police] should have been much more rational.”

It is not clear exactly what happened in the moments leading up to the shooting on Saturday just after midnight. Witnesses say that Mr. Yatim, a knife collector, brandished a knife on a Dundas streetcar at Bellwoods Avenue and exposed himself. Everybody rushed out of the streetcar leaving him behind on the vehicle. In a witness video of the police surrounding the streetcar, nine shots are fired after which police can be seen and heard going in to taser Mr. Yatim.

Grieving relatives and about a thousand protesters joined the vigil at the square. Nonie Wall, 49, came with her daughter-in-law. Mr. Yatim, Ms. Wall’s son’s friend, had been staying with the women near Main Street and Danforth Avenue. He had been “down” on his luck in the last two weeks or so, said the women.

“He was like my son,” said Ms. Wall as tears flowed down her cheeks. “He was so innocent. I can’t get him out of my eyes. I hate cops at this moment. He didn’t have to go the way he did.”


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