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The death of George Floyd has triggered a waterfall of questions about the use of force by law enforcement — the method of restraint used on Floyd being one of them.

The trial of a Toronto police officer charged in the shooting death of a teen on an empty streetcar is set to continue today with testimony from witnesses brought by the Crown.

Jury selection begins Wednesday in the second degree murder trial of Toronto police officer James Forcillo who is accused of fatally shooting 18-year-old Sammy Yatim.

Newly released video provides a more complete picture of what led up to the shooting of Sammy Yatim at the hands of a police officer on a Toronto streetcar in July 2013.

A Toronto police officer's fatal shooting of a teen on an empty streetcar two years ago was neither necessary, nor reasonable, a Crown prosecutor told a jury Tuesday as he described the graphic details of Sammy Yatim's death.

The sound of nine loud gunshots shattered the quiet of a Toronto courtroom Thursday as a jury heard for the first time audio of the last moments of Sammy Yatim's life.

The driver of a Toronto streetcar where a teen was gunned down by police said Tuesday that he was frightened in the moments before officers arrived to deal with reports of a young man with a knife.

The trial of a Toronto police officer charged in the shooting death of a teen on an empty streetcar is set to resume today.

A Toronto police officer on trial for gunning down a teen on an empty streetcar was following his training and deserves an acquittal, his lawyer argued Tuesday.

A pilot project that equipped around 100 Toronto police officers with body-worn cameras over the past year has ended and a review of the program has begun.

The fate of a Toronto police officer is now in the hands of a jury that will decide whether he ignored other options and acted as "a hothead and a bully" when he gunned down a teen on an empty streetcar, or whether he pulled the trigger in self-defence.

A jury has found Toronto police officer James Forcillo guilty of attempted murder in the fatal shooting of Sammy Yatim on an empty streetcar in July 2013. He was found not guilty on a charge of second-degree murder.

A jury is now deliberating the fate of Const. James Forcillo, charged in the 2013 shooting death of 18-year-old Sammy Yatim. Here are some key dates:.

Three of four Toronto police officers charged late last month after allegedly planting heroin in a man’s car following a 2014 traffic stop face five new offences.

This week has not been kind to the reputation of the Toronto Police Service.

As a second witness is expected to testify in the trial of disgraced former CBC radio host Jian Ghomeshi, the judge ruled Thursday that a photo of the first complainant wearing a bikini that had been sent to Ghomeshi after alleged attacks took place will not be released to the media.

Families of people killed by police are "hopeful" the Ontario government will act on an ombudsman's report calling for improved training in de-escalation techniques for officers who encounter people in crisis.

A Toronto police officer has been sentenced to six years in prison for gunning down a troubled teen on an empty streetcar in 2013.

A Toronto police officer on trial for gunning down a teen on an empty streetcar denied firing at the knife-toting youth merely on a hunch he might attack.

Less than an hour before he was killed by a Toronto officer, a teen who died in a standoff on an empty streetcar repeatedly asked a stranger to call police, the trial of the constable charged in the shooting heard Friday.