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Toronto Police kill knife wielding man this weekend (Video)
07-28-2013, 09:48 PM
Canadians are getting trigger happy these days.
So much for sleeping with their doors unlocked.
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Toronto Police kill knife wielding man this weekend (Video)
07-28-2013, 09:54 PM
Can't see enough from the video to really make a judgment
Not sure what him being 18 has to do with anything though any more than Trayvon Martin being 17 mattered. A teenager can kill you, and many have killed. Who do you think commits a lot of the violent crime?
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Toronto Police kill knife wielding man this weekend (Video)
07-28-2013, 10:00 PM
Aw come on. You can't even compare this to Trayvon Martin. This is a teenager who is surrounded by several police officers, all of whom have tasers and other weapons at their disposal.
NO comparison.
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Toronto Police kill knife wielding man this weekend (Video)
07-28-2013, 10:06 PM
Don't give up hope yet on a media-fueled brouhaha.
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The teen’s uncle, Mejad “Jim” Yatim, said his nephew had been adjusting to Canadian life after emigrating from Syria five years ago.
The kid was Syrian.
Now, if one or more of the police officers at the scene turns out to be white or "white hispanic," we could have a story here.
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Toronto Police kill knife wielding man this weekend (Video)
07-28-2013, 10:27 PM
I don't understand why they couldn't have just tased him? If they had line of sight to fire, they'd have line of sight to tase... I guess bullets are cheaper than taser cartridges...
Plus the streetcar's rear doors were wide open the entire time, and the kid's focus was clearly on all the cops pointing guns at him - nobody could've snuck up the back and gotten a clear, surprise, unobstructed taser shot? geez. I guess that's why I'm not part of the Toronto Police Service: I don't operate under a "path of least resistance" mentality.
SIU has no teeth so I don't expect anything to come from this, like always. Just seems so unnecessary and sad.
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Toronto Police kill knife wielding man this weekend (Video)
07-29-2013, 01:34 AM
Notice how the canadians have managed not to turn a police shooting into a racial debate?
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Toronto Police kill knife wielding man this weekend (Video)
07-29-2013, 09:32 AM
I've only been to the US once and thankfully I didn't have any run ins with their Police -I was we'll aware of their reputation in advance. I did notice however, the tendency of security officials and Police at airports etc. on occasion to low level, harangue and harass people that they had authority over. Their drill sergeant style pissed me off; but I knew how it would end up if I complained (on the floor in handcuffs no doubt).
There definitely seems to be a problem with the readiness of some members of the police to escalate and to use disproportionate violence. And it is nonsense to try and deny the racial issues at work here as well.
Ultimately, it is up to US citizens to stand up to abuse of power by the Police. They have to decide whether they want to live in a society where the Police continue to serve the state and the financial interests of the ruling elite (and acting like gangsters and thugs on occasion); as opposed to the Police genuinely serving the people and having real accountability for their actions.
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Toronto Police kill knife wielding man this weekend (Video)
07-29-2013, 09:11 PM
^ yeah that was particularly pathetic on the part of the RCMP...encountering an individual within the security area of an international airport and tasing him to death
the RCMP clowns then travelled to poland looking for evidence that he had a drinking problem, even though it had f all to do with his death.
amazingly one of the clown cops in this death was involved a short time later driving drunk and killed a man:
ttp://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/british-columbia/court-hears-claim-rcmp-officer-drank-vodka-to-beat-drunk-driving-charge/article535569/
beyond pathetic.
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Toronto Police kill knife wielding man this weekend (Video)
07-29-2013, 10:20 PM
It was a knife. There were a bunch of cops. The odds of him being able to seriously hurt a cop would be slim since they have vests on and I imagine all are trained at disarming a knife wielding individual. If he was charging maybe I would give cops more of the benefit of the doubt. Maybe he was on drugs, a whole bunch of factors.
They could have all just backed off since he wasn't coming out of the bus (it seems). This would allow them more time to react if he charged but just putting distance between them. No one else was on the bus so no one was at risk.
9 shots? Must be budget cutbacks or something and the cops are not getting time at the gun range. It seemed pretty excessive.
But my opinion is based on a video on a computer monitor. I have no idea what really happened. But it does seem like it might have been a slow night and the cops were bored- a lot of cops there.
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