We all know that guns are dangerous. Here’s a news story of a policeman who was too trigger-happy and ended up costing the prefecture more than 11 million yen in damages for shooting an innocent man and putting him in a wheelchair for life.
The Yokohama District Court ruled that the shooting of a man by a Kanagawa Prefectural Police officer during questioning was illegal and ordered the Kanagawa Prefectural Government to pay some 11.54 million yen in damages to the victim.
The 31-year-old man from Yokohama had his lower body paralyzed and became wheelchair-bound due to injuries caused by the shooting. He had sought about 80 million yen in compensation.
The man was suspected by the police officer to have robbed a vending machine. After the man tried to flee the scene in his car, a police sergeant from Yokosuka Police Station fired a shot aiming at the man’s right shoulder.
The bullet, however, penetrated the man’s right side, settling in the left of his back. The man eventually became wheelchair-bound.
The prefectural government defended the officer’s actions: “The policeman gave warning by raising a gun, but the man ignored it and tried to crash into a police car. It could not have been helped that the policeman did not fire a warning shot.”
Source: Mainichi Japan
Hmmm 11 million yen wouldn’t last long. Whats gonna happen to the man after he finish using all that money, he wouldn’t be able to rob anymore vending machines in his wheelchair.
you sure o_0,
He can put some engine to his wheel chair with that 11m yen. And off to go to rob another Vending Machine XD.
He gets no sympathy from me, if he was innocent then he had no reason to flee and deserves no money. The police officer however trigger happy he was, did the right thing in busting caps in the dude
Really? rob a vending machine and you should be confined to a wheelchair for the rest of your life? your an idiot.
Yet if he didn’t rob it he could live a life with working legs. To me it would seem that he was the idiot
more like if the cop didn’t shoot him he could live a life with working legs. You don’t rob a vending machine and expect to be shot! the punishment in no way shape or form fits the crime. this isn’t Iran ffs!
to rob a vending machine u have to be an idiot, i wonder if he shouted at it “JUST SHUT UP AND HAND OVER THE SWEET SWEET CANDY!”…..poor vending machine (dont try n start flame wars)
i thaught that guns were outlawed completely in japan? why would police carry them? or am i mistaken? =D
It says he tried to crash his car into the police car, so the cop was just defending himself. He didn’t do anything wrong in shooting the robber in my opinion.
Don’t think the police are at fault here… 11 million yen?? That guy’s a big scammer!