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Its really tough to move about with your hands handcuffed, but a suspected yakuza member managed to escape from the police after being handcuffed.

According to investigators, a police officer who was out on patrol looking for gang members along national highway 58 in Nago City was suddenly approached from the rear by a man on a motorcycle.

The man struck the officer in the face with a stick and then took off. Soon after, the same man was stopped by a different officer for ignoring a traffic signal. As the officer was trying to get the suspect into a patrol car, he got jostled into a group of about 50 young onlookers and escaped with the handcuffs latched on to only his right hand.

The officer who was hit in the face suffered a broken tooth. Police are currently searching for the man and several of the onlookers on charges of interfering with an officer in the line of duty. A Nago police spokesman said: “We have the whole thing on tape, and we’ll discover who they all are.”

Source: JapanToday

Its quite dissapointing that there was 50 onlookers and no one tried to help the police officer. But then if I was an onlooker I would be thinking maybe I wouldn’t want the yakuza to remember me as someone who helped to apprehend their gang member.