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A single police officer, a six-year uniformed veteran, has been suspended with pay. About 10 officers were on the scene when one or more police officers opened fire on Yatim. The 18-year-old was brandishing a knife up to three inches long alone on a stationary streetcar early Saturday morning near Toronto’s busiest downtown park.

In the enhanced audio recording made available to the National Post, it appears police gave Yatim one stark warning just seconds before they opened fire.

“If you take one step in this direction with that foot …[inaudible] die,” a male police officer appears to tell the teenager. Five seconds later the first three shots ring out.

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The audio was filtered from video of the incident posted on YouTube. There are at least two videos of the shooting, which occurred at about 12:05 a.m. Saturday morning on Dundas West, and Bellwoods Avenue.

Word of the suspension came amid rising tensions over the shooting, as many Torontonians complained on social media and at an ’emergency vigil’ Monday night that police have become too aggressive, citing multiple shootings in recent years and the G-20 protests of 2010.

Flyers for a demonstration, which began at about Monday night in co-ordination with Yatim’s family, called for “Justice for Sammy! Killer cops off our streets.” The march began at Yonge-Dundas Square and headed down Dundas West to Trinity Bellwoods to the spot where Yatim was shot, and then to 14 Division. Hundreds attended the march, including Yatim’s mother and sister.