Toronto Police Incorrectly Handled the Sammy Yatim Situation

Rebuttal to Round 2The Toronto police shot an armed criminal. they did not violate any Toronto police regulations, on paper, whatsoever. The issue that the regulations themselves might not have been too lenient is what the protests were about, not that the police violated any. To state that would be an utter lie.There were absolutely no pedestrians anywhere near the streetcar. Even o the video you posted, it is easy to see that for a fair radius around the streetcar, the only people present were police. The fact that the police weren't clearing away pedestrians is because there weren't any there to clear. The nearest one was the video captor, and he was pretty far from the streetcar.The Toronto police did not shoot any of the criminal's vitals and I challenge you to show me evidence as such.Rebuttal to Round 3The witness reports were extremely relevant to show how insane and unpredictable the man was. The fact that he had attacked no-one and had seemingly no motive only further worried everyone since a man with no motive who is holding a knife might suddenly find a 'motive' to kill you. In fact, if he had had a motive, the police probably would have never shot him in the first place and reasoned with him about what was on his mind, the man had literally just decided to hold his penis and knife and could have potentially snapped into rage at any moment just as readily as he snapped into that mode of insanity. An unpredictable person who is doing something so crazy for no apparent reason is actually more of a threat to a police force than a man who has shot four people with a specific purpose for doing so and therefore would want to bother hurting the policemen as he is a rational killer who knows what is wise and unwise to de, especially if he/she wants a very good justification for what he'd done to be possible in court.The emotional trauma the man gave everyone indicated he wanted some kind of power trip regardless of his lack of physical violence. What, then, would stop him from suddenly wanting to lob a knife at a policeman's neck just for the thrill of it? After all, a thrill was all he had sought after when he began his terrorizing of the vehicle.In conclusion. the policemen were dealing with a highly unpredictable person who absolutely refused to drop his weapon which could potentially have harmed the policeman, only a few feet away. Therefore the shots were shot in defence and since he still was grappling at his knife while on the floor never letting go of it he could have suddenly thrown it backwards so that's why the second six were shot. I don't need to give evidence of this, it's the only rational explanation for what happened unless you have an alternative one which makes reasonable sense and explains why the veteran police officer would be 'immune to panic'.I would just like to leave you with one question:There was an 18 your old man whom, for no reason whatsoever and without any motive at all, had spontaneously decided to hold his penis and a knife and then terrorize everyone on a streetcar stopping travel plans for thousands of people within that city over the hours that followed.Now tell me, realistically, how you would be able to reason and calm down such an irrational person when you know that every second you waste with him, you could have spent stopping a rape or robbery.