SAMMY YATIN IS DEAD, WAS IT MURDER?

Clearly the Crown believes that it was. He referred to the officer who shot Yatin nine times as a "hothead and a bully". The shocking video of Sammy's death shows him being shot three times, slumping to the ground and then being shot six more times. Then for good measure a second cop stepped forward and tasered the dying youth. "To serve and protect" seems to have gotten lost somewhere.

The defence claims self defence. Yes Mr. Yatin was holding a small knife but he had not left the empty streetcar. Emphasis on empty streetcar. There were no hostages. No one else's life was in danger. Mr. Yatin did not attack or charge Officer Forcillo. The prosecution gave their closing arguments earlier this week. It is in the hands of the jury. The video certainly limited any options of story telling or gilding the lily in this tragedy. Will justice be done? An awful lot hangs in the balance. The Waterloo Region Record carried this story yesterday titled "Crown calls Toronto cop who killed teen on streetcar "a hothead and a bully".