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Originally Posted by Regulator75

Was English his first language?

No.

http://www.vice.com/en_ca/read/why-d...ll-sammy-yatim

As reports from Sammy’s friends and family are starting to trickle out through the media—which seem to unanimously describe him as a quiet, friendly teenager who “collected knives” and was in the process of learning English—it seems that something had deeply shaken Sammy on the night of his death. If his loved ones are to be believed, Sammy acted wildly out of character that night, and was a threat to those around him, just as he was a threat to himself. The sensitivities of this situation were certainly not addressed, and instead, the dimwitted decision to load Sammy Yatim up with bullets ended his life too early. As Martin said to me in an email: “The police must protect the public, and of course protect themselves, but one of the responsibilities of the police on Saturday morning was to protect Sammy from himself, and they seemed to have forgotten that.”