Category Archives: police shooting
Shoot!! Or, maybe talk?
It’s almost a year since an 18-year-old boy, Sammy Yatim, was shot to death by a Toronto police officer. He was alone in a streetcar. With a 3” knife. I guess they thought that heavy, iron streetcar couldn’t contain him. … Continue reading
Alternative to shooting? ….. Compassion?
If you pay any attention to the news, you may have heard that an 18-year-old boy, Sammy, was shot to death by a Toronto police officer a few weeks ago. He was alone in a streetcar. With a 3” knife. … Continue reading
Another police shooting!
Ah! Another police shooting of someone “with a knife”. And another demonstration approaches – August 13. This was Sammy Yatim, a boy in distress. It seems like there’s an awful lot of ignorance around ‘distress’. In the next rally, a … Continue reading