Toronto Police Shooting a Man with a Knife

Toronto police shot to death a young man - shot at him 9 times center mass - just because he had a knife.

He had no hostage. Was surrounded by cops. Trapped on a Toronto TTC bus. He was a threat to nobody but himself.

In a world of pepperspray, tasers, and police batons they could have taken him down a different way - and he would have lived.

Instead Sammy Yatim, 18, was shot dead by a trigger-happy Toronto Police Constable James Forcillo early Saturday, July 27, 2013.

Why? Because he had a knife.

Whoop dee do. I keep a katana next to my bed in a box.