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TORONTO – Yet another video has surfaced online showing the moments surrounding the shooting of 18-year-old Sammy Yatim including Yatim being carried out of the vehicle and placed on a stretcher.
Yatim was shot multiple times by a Toronto police officer while wielding a knife on an empty TTC Streetcar just after midnight on Friday.
The new video was uploaded to YouTube soon after the shooting and has since garnered thousands of views.
The video begins moments after the shooting and looks west down Dundas Street towards the streetcar and dozens of police officers as they walk around the scene and close to several empty shells on the ground.
Other videos that captured the moment of the shooting show police officers fired three shots, then six more shots six seconds later. In total, nine shots were fired.
The camera’s microphone picks up police officers yelling for their colleagues to set up for an “emergency run.” An ‘emergency run’ involves police blocking off intersections between the scene and the hospital so the ambulance can move without interruption. They are typically reserved for very serious situations.
Someone counting to 10 as CPR is performed on Yatim is also heard.
Moments later, police officers can be seen taping off the scene and marking shells.
Roughly three minutes into the video, a police officer can be heard saying “Find me Forcillo.” Constable James Forcillo has since been identified as the “subject officer” in the Special Investigations Unit (SIU) investigation.
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