Toronto Police Incorrectly Handled the Sammy Yatim Situation

INFORMATIVE VIDEO TO VIEW PRE-DEBATE: http://www.cbc.ca...I'm going to take you on a journey.It is a journey into the mind of the man who held a gun that day. The man who pulled the trigger and shot the 18 year old with a penis in one hand and knife in the other nine times and then allowed his chief to taser the poor guy.Was he right? Perhaps not.Was he wrong? Definitely not.Let's assess the situation from the very beginning. From far before the police had arrived at the scene. To when an 18 year-old stood up, unzipped his pants pulled out his dick and a knife and held one with his left and the other with his right. He brooded terror amongst and entire streetcar (a Canadian equivalent to a train carriage). He had seemingly no motive. Was entirely unpredictable and was breaking about 5 different laws at once.Ladies and gentlemen, here with consider a man so apparently insane, so insane that he might perhaps suddenly throw his knife right at your neck regardless of your army of armed cops. A man so capable of illogical sudden actions that he would stand and begin simultaneously masturbating and holding a knife a whilst walking to the front of a vehicle with apparently no other intention than to feel dangerous. This is what that policeman was dealing with.Don't just take my word for it though. Let's give witness accounts."He stuck his arm out and the knife was sticking straight up in front of me, I was backing up holding my bike saying, ‘Please just let us off the streetcar. Just let us off the streetcar!" Recalls the terrified Mister Li-Hill who thankfully escaped this lunatic unscathed thanks to what can only be assumed to be mister Yatim's bloodlust focusing elsewhere.Source: http://www.theglobeandmail.com..."To be honest, the first thing that crossed my mind, based on him holding a knife and his penis, was that he wasn’t mentally stable. He seemed angry. He was very focused on something at the front of the streetcar. I’m not sure if it was the people or just one person in particular." States the perplexed and terrified Jessica Doyle who is most traumatised by the experience. She didn't see Sammy as a real threat apparently but then what can such a perplexed woman of 28 really know about the intentions of such a madman.Source: http://www.thestar.com...If you watch the video debate, you will notice a pattern in what the witnesses are saying. The all agree that the man completely terrorised them emotionally but terrorised no one physically. They all agree that he was trying to take them all hostage and that he was absolutely unpredictable and a potential danger to every single person in that car, even holding the driver hostage for quite some time.So what it comes down to is how to deal with such an insane man with an open door between you and him knowing that at any time he could throw the knife at your face, neck or somewhere else on your body. You have to remember that the entire time this man is holding his penis for no apparent reason.The police force is not some elite superhuman army of law enforcers; they are people just like you and I. The man who shot him was very scared of this man and in a state of extreme confusion and fear. He tried to keep the man back so they could handcuff him and even explicitly stated "if you step forward, I will have to shoot you" as can be seen on the youtube video that my opponent posted.The man then chose to step forward as a threat and still was swinging the knife back and forth holding it upwards, a position that is easy to throw from.The policeman shot him three times but then the man tried to get up again, not once letting go of the knife. Therefore the policeman had to shoot him more times (noting that none were aimed at vital organs). They then waited for him to lay still before tasering him as soon as his hand holding the knife went limp. They had to do what they had to do in that situation.Just remember these police have saved many lives and got justice enforced many times, they know that anything at all can happen.The man was publicly nude (potentially in front of some minors although this isn't confirmed), in possession of a weapon as a civilian and also had just taken people hostage as well as disrespected a police officer. If this is not worthy of a police shot then how many laws would one have to break to warrant such an action?Thank you for your time, I hope I've opened your mind.