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The new video, which appears to be a cellphone recording of a security camera monitor from the northwest corner of Dundas West and Bellwoods Avenue, shows Yatim clearly gesturing towards police with a knife in hand. There is no audio in the security camera footage but other videos have indicated someone is saying, “You’re a p—-. You’re a f—- pussy” at this time, while police yell “Drop the knife!” repeatedly.

Yatim then backs off behind the driver’s well, towards the first row of seats.

Audio made available to the National Post from video taken from a different angle showed this to be the moment that a male police officer appears to say: “If you take one step in this direction with that foot …[inaudible] die.”

Five seconds later, Yatim is shot for the first time.

Unlike previously obscured footage of the moment Yatim was shot, the security camera footage shows him briskly moving forward to the point where he is almost in line with the driver’s cab door, before his knees buckle and he falls backwards.

Several seconds later, one leg begins twitching forward towards the streetcar’s front door. While at least two police officers on screen have their weapons holstered at this moment, previously released video indicates this is the moment at least one police officer fires his gun six more times.

A female police officer can be seen with her weapon holstered throughout the entire incident, and she reaches for her radio after the first shots.