TORONTO – Toronto police Const. James Forcillo was found guilty Monday of attempted murder in the death of 18-year-old Sammy Yatim, but cleared on the more serious charge of second-degree murder. Here’s what some of the key players had to say:

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“Sammy was a young man who had his whole future ahead of him. Because of what the police did we lost him forever.”

-Sahar Bahadi, Yatim’s mother

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“The notion that there would be a guilty finding in respect of an attempt murder charge is a message loud and clear that the old days where a police officer went to trial in the shooting death of a mentally ill or an emotionally disturbed person and literally enjoyed an immunity at the end of a trial — those days are gone.”

-Julian Falconer, lawyer for the Yatim family

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“My sense from this jury was, from the body language and what we were seeing, I felt we really had some people against us from the get-go, I really feel we had some people for us and I think we had some people in the middle. I’m concerned about a compromise verdict in this case but I also don’t want to take anything away from this jury because I wasn’t in the jury room.”

-Peter Brauti, Forcillo’s lawyer

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“We are all going forward in time to see what we can do to reduce any harm to anybody we deal with who’s a person in crisis. We’re looking for anything that can help — zero harm, zero death.”

-Toronto police Chief Mark Saunders

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“Clearly this sends a chilling message to our members and our goal is to keep our members engaged, keep them out there doing their job, but when you have an officer who is vindicated for the first three shots … who said, listen, my training, I made a mistake, and then he’s put in this position, it sends a chilling message.”

-Mike McCormack, president of the Toronto Police Association

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