The Nagoya Summary Court has ordered a 46-year-old ex-Aichi prefectural police inspector to pay a fine of 800,000 yen following the death of a man in custody at Okazaki police station in December 2022.
The incident involved a detainee (then 43), who was in restraints, Kyodo News reported. He was found unconscious and taken to a hospital, where his death was confirmed.
The man was arrested on Nov 25, 2022, for allegedly obstructing official duties and died on Dec 4. The man had been placed in solitary confinement as a result of violent behavior, Kyodo reported. Restraining devices, such as handcuffs and ropes, were used on him for a total of 144 hours.
He was not given access to medicine for his chronic illnesses nor provided medical assistance even though he was refusing meals. He was also showing symptoms of dehydration.
Security camera footage also showed the man apparently being kicked, and the case was referred to prosecutors for assault by police officials.
The Nagoya District Public Prosecutors Office indicted the ex-police inspector in charge of the detention center for professional negligence resulting in death. The other eight officers were not indicted.
© Japan Today/Kyodo
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Redemption
I think 144 hours of similar treatment would be more appropriate.
Yubaru
Good on the cops for referring their own for mistreatment here. Although I hate to say that it was only because of the video footage I will bet
At least they didnt cover it up!
Yeah and a slap on the wrist fine! He get more than that in his bonus, so it's not really going to affect him all that much. He deserved to be fired and jailed!
Additional charges of breaking the public trust should have been included here!
Go figure huh? Kick a guy and get away with assault.
Lorem ipsum
So this fool gets off with a fine....yet in an article further down the page of this very website, a doctor gets 18 years for voluntarily murdering someone with ALS. Riiight, makes perfect sense.......NOT.
リッチ
So I. The USA a Japanese guy gets 300,009usd for false arrest. But a japanese cop tortured the person and didn’t provide appropriate care and gets a 5k fine for allowing someone to die instead of doing his job. Makes sense. Sarcasm intended.
sakurasuki
And all of that, 800 thousand yen enough to cover everything.
Once fall guy decided, case closed.
Abe234
I can't help but think that one day.... Enock Powels' speech about the river of blood, might end up coming true. The only thing is, it's the immigrant's blood that's being split. As immigration increases further.... it's time the Japanese police, immigration, politicians, local governments schools, etc work together to stop this sort of thing from happening. Because one day, someone will be killed by the police or immigration, and some people will say Enough is Enough.
TaiwanIsNotChina
That's almost a week in restraints. Do the police just know they can get away with anything in Japan?
BertieWooster
Life is cheap. ¥800,000 for torture and death. That doesn't seem like justice to me.
owzer
So who gets the money?
Paul
Life is cheap in Japan!
HiJapan
According to other news reports the man suffered from Schizophrenia and Type 1 Diabetes.
Truly shameful treatment of a human being in medical distress.
John
It sounds as bad as Europe during stone age times.