ஒரு சிறு கத்தியை வைத்துக் கொண்டு street car ஒன்றினுள் நின்று கொண்டு இருக்கின்றான்.

 

அவனிடம் வேறு ஆயுதங்கள் இருப்பதாகவும் தெரியவில்லை.

 

Street car இல் வேறு எந்த பயணிகளும் இல்லை.

 

அதன் சாரதி கூட வெளியேறி விட்டார்.

 

அவன் மற்றவர்களை தாக்கப் போகின்றேன் என்று கூட சொல்லவில்லை. வெறுமனே யாருமற்ற Steer car ஒன்றினுள் நின்று கொண்டு இருக்கின்றான்.

 

பொலிசார் அவனது கத்தியை கீழே போடச் சொல்லி மிகச் சில தடவைகள் மாத்திரம் உத்தரவிடுகின்றனர்.

 

அவ்வாறு கத்தியை கீழ போடச் சொல்லி உத்தரவிட்ட ஒரு சில வினாடிக்குள் பொலிசாரின் 9 துப்பாக்கி குண்டுகள் அவனை நோக்கி விரைகின்றன.

 

அந்த 18 வயது ஆன, கனவுகள் பல சுமந்த,  இளைஞன் கொல்லப்படுகின்றான்......

 

இது நடந்தது ஆபிரிக்காவிலோ அல்லது சிறிலங்கா போன்ற மனித உரிமைகளை மதிக்காத தேசம் ஒன்றிலோ அல்ல.

 

மனித உரிமைகளை மதிக்கின்றோம் என்று மார்தட்டும் Canada வில் Toronto வின் மத்திய பகுதியில் வெள்ளி நள்ளிரவுக்கு சற்று பிந்திய நேரத்தில் நடந்த படுகொலை.

 

விசாரணை இல்லை, நீதி மன்றம் இல்லை, குற்றவாளிக்கு சரணடைய சந்தர்ப்பம் கூட கொடுக்கப்படவில்லை, நடுத்தெருவில் வைத்து ரொரன்டோ பொலிசார் வழங்கிய தீர்ப்பு இது.

 

மேலும்:

 

http://youtu.be/lG6OTyjzAgg

 

 

The devastated father of an 18-year-old shot dead by Toronto police on a streetcar is searching for answers in the death of his son, who he called an “average kid.”

At Sammy Yatim’s North Toronto home on Sunday, friends gathered in a small living room to console his father, Nabil. The father was too distraught to speak at length, but said he knew little of what happened the night his son died.

“We are in very, very difficult times,” he said, his eyes bloodshot. “He was an average kid, loved by his friends. Now, you have totally different versions coming out.”

The Special Investigations Unit is probing the shooting, which took place Saturday just after midnight on a Dundas streetcar near Grace St. Witnesses said Yatim brandished a three-inch knife and ordered everyone off the car.

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In a witness video, Yatim can be seen standing near the front of the empty streetcar as police shout, “Drop your weapon!” and “Don’t move!” When Yatim appears to move, officers fire three shots. After several seconds, officers fire six additional shots.

Officers can still be heard yelling, “Drop the knife!” after the shots are fired. About 20 seconds later, an officer climbs up the streetcar stairs and the sound of a Taser can be heard.

 

The teenager was rushed with a gunshot wound to St. Michael’s Hospital, where he was pronounced dead.

As the SIU remained silent about the details on Sunday, family and friends tried desperately to make sense of the incident. The teen’s uncle, Mejad “Jim” Yatim, said his nephew had been adjusting to Canadian life after emigrating from Syria five years ago.

“Sammy seemed to be flourishing in Canada,” he wrote in an email to the Star. “I have to admit, he tried to fit in with his friends. He wore hoodies and wore his pants lower than his father would stomach.”

 

Yatim’s father has lived in Canada since 1968, but his wife and children lived in Syria until the parents divorced five years ago, according to the uncle. Sammy and his sister Sarah, now 16, moved to Toronto to live with their father.

 

“Sammy used to spend the summers with his mom in Syria until the situation became so dangerous ... We all saw that the best thing to do was to keep the kids here rather than sending them back,” he said.

 

But he said Yatim, who worked at a Sheppard Ave. McDonald’s until about six months ago, had never shown signs of mental illness or violence. A bus driver once lodged a complaint against him for having an “attitude,” he said.

 

“Since when did it become a crime to be a teenager, I ask you?” he said. “And since when does a scrawny 110-pound-something teenager become a threat to a dozen or so brawny policemen, when he is isolated in an empty streetcar, that they felt that they had no

 

other choice but to use lethal force?”

 

The uncle added that he does not know what Yatim was doing on an Etobicoke-bound 505 streetcar that night. Yatim has lived in the northeast end of Toronto for all of his years in Canada.

 

“It is an absolute mystery to me why he was on that streetcar,” he said. “The only explanation is that his father was out of town and maybe he wanted to visit a girlfriend.”

 

His father was away on business and returned to Toronto early Saturday morning, after learning of his son’s death. His mother and several extended family members are believed to still be in Syria.

 

On the quiet street where Yatim lived, near Sheppard Ave. and Highway 404, close neighbours were gripped by grief. One resident burst into tears as she recalled how Yatim dutifully helped clean up branches and leaves from her lawn.

 

“It’s very sad because he was such a nice boy,” she said. “He didn’t seem any more troubled than any other teenager.”

Dorsa Bayrami, who met Yatim three years ago through a family friend, said all his friends were in shock.

 

“He was the sweetest guy, very loving and kind-hearted. If he saw you down about something, he’d come to help you out, ask you why you’re sad and make you laugh,” she said.

 

Yatim, a soccer fan, just graduated from Brebeuf College, an all-boys Catholic high school in North York, in June and intended to go to college in the fall, said Bayrami.

 

“He adjusted well in Canada. He loved being in Canada, being in a peaceful country,” she said. “If there’s anyone causing harm, Sammy was always the one stopping it. Why would they shoot him? He wasn’t doing any harm to anyone on the streetcar.”

 

Toronto Police are facing intense criticism for the shooting, as the teenager appears to have been alone and holding only a small knife at the time. On social media, outrage has exploded among friends and strangers alike.

 

An “emergency vigil” will be held at Dundas St. and Bellwoods Ave. at 6:30 p.m. Monday, to “demand justice for Sammy and an end to police violence,” according to a Facebook event. A spontaneous memorial has already sprung up at the scene.

 

Councillor Janet Davis said Yatim’s death raises serious questions about police procedures during crises. After the police shooting of 29-year-old Michael Eligon in her Beaches-East York ward last year, she lobbied for additional resources and training for police to deal with the mentally ill. Eligon was “armed” only with scissors.

 

“It looks as though this young man was shot when he was alone in the streetcar and surrounded by police officers. Was there nothing else that could be done to save his life?” she asked.

 

According to one witness, before police arrived, the streetcar operator was standing behind the controls while Yatim was sitting at the front of the car.

“All of a sudden, the operator jumps out and the guy sitting in front stands up, holding a knife against his chest,” said the witness, Markus Grupp.

 

Within seconds, police surrounded the streetcar, and Grupp started shooting video on his iPhone. Soon thereafter, he heard gunshots.

“It was almost surreal,” he said late Saturday. “I’ve played it all in my head about 100 times today.”

 

TTC spokesperson Brad Ross said the streetcar’s security video will not be released, as is policy.

 

As Yatim’s family waits for answers, his uncle says that the “shock has not set in yet.”

 

“My brother says, ‘All I want to do is bury my son.’ And I say I am my brother’s keeper,” he said. “It is a tragedy for our family.”

 

 

 

http://www.thestar.com/news/crime/2013/07/28/sammy_yatim_family_of_dead_teen_stunned_and_baffled_by_police_shooting.html

 

 

 

 

 

 

பனி அள்ளும் இயந்திரத்தால் ஒரு காவல்துறை ஊழியரைக் கொன்ற வெள்ளையர் கைது செய்யப்பட்டு, பின்னர் மண்டைப் பிழை என்று சிகிச்சைக்காக அனுப்பிவைக்கப்பட்டார்.. எடுத்த உடனே சுட்டார்கள் என்றால் இவரைப் பின் தொடர்ந்தார்களோ?

எடுத்த உடனே சுட்டார்கள் என்றால் இவரைப் பின் தொடர்ந்தார்களோ?

 

செய்திகளை வாசிக்கும் போது, அவ்வாறு தோன்றவில்லை. அந்த இளைஞன் வாகனத்தில் இருந்த அனைவரையும் வெளியேறச் சொல்லிவிட்டு தான் மட்டும் தனிய நின்றிருக்கின்றார். Victim was pleading for help என்று கூட ஒரு சக பயணி இன்று கூறியிருக்கின்றார்.

 

இது ஒரு Cold blood murder!