Forcillo was Eight for Nine

That Sammy Yatim was range practice for his executioner, constable James Forcillo, is apparent from the autopsy findings.  Forcillo emptied all nine-rounds from his gun.  Eight times his bullets found their target, Sammy Yatim's body.

Eight hits in the course of firing lasting 13-seconds.   You rarely see anyone firing that fast at a shooting range.  You also won't see shooters that close to their target at a firing range.  What's the point? 

Stationary shooter, stationary target, short range, eight for nine.  That's not suspect down.  It's suspect done.

Closing Ranks Behind Officer Forcillo

The right wingers seem to have settled on their talking points for Jimmy Forcillo, the Toronto cop who executed Sammy Yatim on a Toronto streetcar last month.

The first point is to contend that there's no justice in convicting Forcillo of the execution.

The second point is the claim that Yatim died in a "hail of gunfire."  It's a "hail" of fire, a blur, who can tell, who can judge?  Except that's a lie as anyone who has watched the videos knows.

The third point is that Forcillo is being thrown to the mob.  Public emotion is riding so high there's no way he can be treated fairly.  Hence the executioner is now the victim.

And it's all bollocks, especially the "hail of gunfire" linchpin on which this rests.




Forcillo took his time emptying his automatic's nine-round clip into Yatim.  It was no hail of gunfire.  He fired over a very extended 13-seconds, first round to last.

Forcillo dropped Yatim to the floor of the streetcar with his first, 3-round salvo that took all of two seconds.  Yatim went down, apparently with the first of those three rounds, never to get back up.  Call it the First Event.

What followed was a nearly 5-second long pause.  No movement, no gunfire.  No hail of any description.   Call that the Second Event.

The remaining almost six seconds were filled with the remaining rounds in Forcillo's handgun.  A salvo of four shots, a pause, the eighth shot, a pause, the ninth and final shot.   Call that the Third Event.

I saw these events.   You saw them.   So did Blatchford et al.  It's easy to say that the eyes play tricks on us.  Fortunately I didn't use my eyes to hear those gunshots.   I used my ears to hear them and my mind plus the YouTube counter to log them, to time the three events.

The right and its greasy minions like Blatchford are quietly coming to Forcillo's defence and it speaks volumes that they're bringing arguments based on lies.  It's people like Blatchford playing on emotions because of just one thing - Forcillo is a cop.  He's one of her tribe and he thus deserves the "hail of gunfire" defence.

Yatim's Killer Charged With Murder

The Execution of Sammy Yatim

Toronto constable James Forcillo has been charged with second degree murder in the execution of Sammy Yatim in a Toronto streetcar on July 27th.


Over a span of 13 seconds, Forcillo fired nine rounds from his sidearm at the young man who stood alone in the empty streetcar.

Within the first two seconds Forcillo fired three rounds sending Yatim to the floor from which he never rose.

Then followed a break of almost five seconds before Forcillo fired another four rounds then a pause and the eighth round, another pause, and the ninth round.

It was that initial, five-second pause that transforms this into two distinct shooting events.   However arguable the use of deadly force might have been at the outset when, in the first two seconds, Forcillo fired the first three rounds, there is no question that Yatim was down, seriously wounded, and no conceivable threat to Forcillo or the platoon of fellow cops at his side when the officer chose to fire his remaining six rounds into the prone and stationary body of this young man.

It's hard to imagine the authorities proceeding with the second-degree murder charge.  Watch for counsel to plea bargain this down to manslaughter with a very reduced sentence.