Said Yatim appeared completely unafraid. "I am pointing a firearm at him at 10 feet or less. And he couldn't have cared less."
Described Yatim as having his jaw clenched, eyes wide, body tense. Said he looked like "that guy in the bar looking for a fist fight."
"My order was reasonable. His behaviour was unreasonable."
Said Yatim never indicated he was surrendering: "Mr Yatim was in it right until the end."
Said there was no way to tell from where he was standing if there were others on the streetcar. Said he had to make a decision to save his own life and those of others.
Said assessing the situation thought the safest course of action was to arrest Yatim on streetcar.
He admits it wasn't the safest place to position himself but he said he had a duty to protect the public.
He said he strategically placed himself in front of the doors of the streetcar to put himself between Yatim and the public, to communicate with Mr. Yatim and to see what he was doing.
Forcillo said he was about 10 feet from Yatim but he felt he was close enough to touch the streetcar even though he was not.
He says the point they reinforce at training is knives are dangerous and a person can close in quickly. The size of a knife doesn't matter. He said in Toronto, officers' vests only protect against bullets, they offer only some protection against slashes.
Edge weapon lesson at police college is about a half day says Forcillo
On a break will be back shortly
Said he pulled his weapon to let Yatim the situation is serious and he was putting Forcillo and himself in danger if he didn't comply.
Said he felt Yatim was tracking him -- following his movements with the knife.
Said "If I'm injured by the person with the knife, I'm unable to protect other people on the street."
Says most people on north side of street, some on south side of street.
He parked the car about 20 ft west of streetcar. First thing seeing is lot of people here, crying, panicked, some with phones out.
Says it took him a minute to arrive on scene.
Said he and his partner didn't discuss a plan on the way to the hotshot because Forcillo was focusing on driving and listening to the dispatch call for whatever info they could glean.
He said could mean nobody has been hurt, could be someone has been hurt but hasn't called 911. Says these things are dynamic and by the time he arrived there could be someone hurt.
The dispatcher says "No injuries at this time time." Brauti asked what that means to Forcillo:
Dispatcher puts out a call 1447.1 meaning if you're not doing anything urgent, officers should attend the call.
The dispatcher assigned the call to Forcillo and his partner.
Said he knew from dispatcher that he and partner were heading to location where a person has a knife.
Forcillo said as heard the call knew he was in the right zone and close to the hotshot location.
Watching sync-ed video of inside the streetcar with audio from police dispatch operator putting the call out for man with knife on board the streetcar.
That was the call about Yatim being on the streetcar with a knife.
About a minute later they got a "hotshot". Hotshots are emergency response calls -- urgent calls.
Partner got a tea and as gets into the car, Forcillo said he set the radio up to link with dispatcher for calls
He went to College and Borden to grab a sandwich because said knew was going to be so busy that they would work through their
lunch.
Says he and his partner were in a good mood when leave the station
No in car camera in the vehicle he was in that night
Says he and his partner were told to clear a parade as quickly as possible because there was lots of events going on in the city.
Talking about getting his gear, checking his gear, putting on his uniform and equipment and how he's usually inspected by the sergeant
Left gym 1000 in a great mood. Says took him 10-20 mins to get to 14 Div for his shift.
July 26, 2013 before work -- had something to eat and went to gym around 0800.
Said not trained to shoot at targets at 10 feet away because Forcillo said if the threat is at 10 feet and advancing, the assumption is you've already fired your weapon
Brauti asks client why were no shots fired? Forcillo said because the two men obeyed his commands
One other time he was dealing with a drug deal gone wrong. Two men in Kensington pulled knives at each other June 2012. Defence showing video of the incident where Forcillo is using a radio to tell the dispatcher: "I'd really really appreciate sending backup.
Says he''s pulled his weapon on a dozen occasions. Fired it once - at Sammy Yatim
Says 14 div gets most calls of any division. Mostly licensed establishments, domestic abuse, emotionally disturbed persons.
Says officers can go anywhere in division, not assigned a zone.
Says 14 Div is very diverse - multimillion dollar homes and poverty in Parkdale, lots of condos.
He's walking the jury through the area that delineates the area covered by 14 division
