A car chase has ended with police shooting dead the car’s yakuza driver after he repeatedly attempted to ram his way past police.
The incident began in the early hours of the morning, when two police officers spotted a “suspicious” car at an Osaka restaurant parking lot and approached it to question the occupants.
Rather than be questioned, the driver drove off through a fence, and police promptly gave chase.
Police finally managed to stop the car at an intersection 20 minutes later after a 15km pursuit, and disembarked to effect an arrest, but the yakuza repeatedly rammed the patrol car in an effort to escape, prompting police to open fire.
Police fired several warning shots into the vehicle’s tires, but these were apparently ignored and police proceeded to fire repeatedly into the driver’s side, hitting him once in the chest.
The mortally wounded driver, identified as a member of the Yamaguchi syndicate, was arrested on charges of attempted murder and interfering with official duties, but died shortly after being taken to hospital.
His companion, an unemployed 47-year-old man, was uninjured and arrested on charges of interfering with official duties, but maintains he “was just sat next to” the dead gangster.
Police maintain their use of deadly force was appropriate due to “the driver’s repeated traffic infractions and ramming of a police vehicle, and the fear he might endanger the public.”
Japanese police are generally highly reluctant to even brandish their weapons (and face potentially career-ending censure if they do so inappropriately), let alone open fire, so their decision to open fire on a vehicle is unusual in the extreme.
No explanation has so far been offered as to why the yakuza’s man was so eager to avoid police, but police suspected his vehicle may have been used in a spate of local thefts from vehicles and recovered a suspect tool from the car.
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Finally has jap police begun to grow some balls and tackle the criminals themselves?
Put some lead into them, maybe with a grenade to make double sure. Step up your game!
Yup he was wanted for attempted murder so this seems about right
Maybe, but to call a car suspicious... Unless that was exactly was a reported vehicle looked like they couldn't really say that.
But hey, its Osaka, they don't believe in human rights. They can strip search government employees and fire them for having tattoos.
You say that, but that's judging these cops by the city. Looks to me like they followed procedure well.
大阪言うな！アホ。
im curious how do people even input symbols with a computer?
@ Anon 12:48:
If you're using MS Windows, look up "IME" (Input Method Editor) and read on how to set it up for your desired languages.
If you're on OS X, it's built-in, check your docs.
If you're on Linux, look up "SCIM" for how-tos.
That's a clear reason why I want to live in Japan..
I was expecting some "they played too much GTA" comments.
nah GTA's softcore. Try real life in detroit.
You obviously haven't seen The Wire Season 1 atleast.
Honestly, no one is suggesting that it might be the case that some other yakuza syndicate hired police to finish off that man?
possible, but yakuza usually try to do it themselves. Much better PR that way.
not if its someone in your own gang...
Yakuza aren't a monolithic group, there's 3 big ones the yamaguchi, sumiyoshi and inagawa and a bunch of smaller ones.
Doesn't they have some sort of code that they kill the guys themselves? But of course if one of the yakuzas want to eliminate another guy in his own group it would make sense...
you read manga too much
This just can be really simple - pull up beside them at red light, spray MAC-10 loaded with .45 ACP and drive away.
At right place at right time, this can be untraceable, and be sure to carry a false license plate also. Might also want to pack your own powder in the bullets if you are good enough to make them on par with manufactured quality.
@16:08 - Ahem.
1. If cops ever find the MAC-10 (or any other gun) you used, they'll get a ballistics match on the slugs you fired into the Yakuza car.
2. It's probably easier to buy ammo on the black market than to (re-)load your own. Can you even *buy* bullet reloading equipment and supplies in Japan?
3. Machine-gun fire is 'noticable'; it tends to stick in peoples' minds as an 'event'. Witnesses give cops details, which can eventually lead them to you.
4. Yes, you can get a silencer, but (a) they don't 'silence' guns as in movies (IRL, firing a supressed .22 caliber pistol makes a sound like a loud "TACK!", though not like a "BANG!"), and (b) they lower the speed of the bullet, which reduces the bullet's penetrating power - this is an issue if you're trying to shoot through a car body, etc.
lol someone seems to be lacking in experience -
1. Letting the cops find anything in the first place is something you avoid to begin with; you can dispose of it and replace it cheap anyway. MAC-10s are like that.
2. First of all, black market products can be traceable to a degree if someone really puts effort into them. Packing your own powder is therefore much more ensuring if you have the knowhow.
3&4. Key question here is 'right time, right place' as I have said - apparently you didn't read that far. Obviously you won't be turning a car into a bee hive in the middle of afternoon on packed street typical of japan.
Also, don't worry, I have used suppressors and the gun in question, and let me tell you a few things: MAC-10 is not a machine gun. It is a submachine automatic pistol with a huge suppressor, and sure the noise may not be extremely low as they do in fiction (this is a fact many people who haven't shot a suppressed weapon don't know), but suppressors can work to cover the sound to a degree where if someone is not watching or listening for gunfire specifically and know what it sounds like, they can throw them off for a short time. also, .45 ACP can easily penetrate the car windows and also penetrate the side doors, even with a suppressor attachment due to its power and modern cars like one above being made a bit flimsier and thinner than those of 1930s.
Key is right time and place, as well as being done in less than 10 second timeframe to lessen the possibility of witnesses.
This is too messy, I think a japanese policeman might meet an early grave due to losing his shit after yakuza flaunts laws in front of him for 10 years while he does traffic duty.
Well, considering the fact that he attempted to run them over, I think it was justified. They didn't even try to kill him with the first shots.
The article didn't say anything about him trying to run them over. Actually if they fired into "the side of the vehicle" they must have been standing at the side of the vehicle at the time of the shooting.
The use of Deadly force is only used as a last resort of an officer protecting themselves. Ignoring warning shots is not a good reason to shoot-to-kill.
best "puts on sunglasses" joke K GO!
We all know what really happened: Someone forgot their routine bribe money to the police for turning a blind eye to shady practices and the police kept a lookout for them.
Police: "Where's our money!?"
Yakuza: "But we've paid you already, didn't we?"
Police: "Don't hand me that s**t! Where's our money m*****f*****!!?" *Starts pulling out guns.*
Yakuza: "Oh s**t!!!" *Starts trying to drive away -- fast!*
The rest is news.
Now we know why What's-His-Name is trying to crack down on civil workers & "ordinary" citizens wearing tattoos. He's trying to fix it so that the police have no trouble identifying & shaking down the "criminal element". We wouldn't want the police "accidentally" shooting an honest citizen because of a decorative tattoo, or having Yakuza spies & fugitives hiding out amoung similarly tattooed civil servants.
Wait wait wait... Japanese cops have Guns?
Yes, even in countries like England where you mostly think cops are not armed, it's only the bobbies(the ones with the funny helmets, not sure if I got that right) that do not wear firearms...
why didn't they use gun when that guy chopped off that police officers finger....really questionable times to use their firearms..
If this was America, 100 rounds would have been fired.
Look it up... at 1 man, police fired 90 rounds!
Imperial Stormtrooper trained?
Near as I can tell, standard procedure in our parts is to immobilize a driver by pinning their vehicle with police cars on every side. This incident strikes me as sloppy.
Hold on... I smell bullshit.
15km in 20 minutes is a speed of only 45km/h (28 miles per hour). Ya fuckin' call that a "high-speed chase"?!
Charging the passenger with "interfering with official duties" is more bullshit.
As other posters have implied, we're not getting much truth from this story.
Maybe the speed limit there was 2km/h? xD
Maybe they got stuck in a 100Km/h roundabout... This is japanese police we're talking about here.
or it's 15km from start to destination and not the amount actually driven (which may include many curves and turns in a city especially trying to avoid being captured along with traffic)...
good catch. "Policeman A leaves Osaka Denny's lot on road following punch-permed ne'er-do-well with and angular velocity of 12.5 m/sec. Policeman has seen 47 of 52 TV episodes of 'You're Under Arrest', while criminal has seen zero episodes of 'Initial-D'. Solve for X'
Where did it say high speed?
Where did it say high speed?
Where did it say high speed?
maybe that's a PR stunt for a secret promotion of Yakuza 5
Thefts from cars?
I thought the yakuza syndicates would somehow be above this sort of petty crime.
They are criminals, they'll do anything as long as there is money in it.
Obviously the top dogs don't do that kind of stuff, but the small fry? They'll do whatever. They're just like normal criminals.
FINALLY THE YAKUZA GIVE US SOMETHING THAT RESEMBLES A FUCKING YAKUZA MOVIE!!!!
As a red-blooded male of Japanese descent, honestly I was getting.....depressed. Yaks turning into second-rate Pachinko hustlers? Pimps that cater to tourists? That's fucking gay.
THEN SUDDENLY THEY GROW BALLZ AND GIVE US EPIC YAKUZA VS. POLICE SHOWDOWN!!!
Well done, Yakuza. You're not a bunch of effeminate oriental pussies.
Can't say the same for the rest of Japan/Korea/China.
@19:41 Yeah, that's typically the thought process of a raging, effeminate oriental queerfag crossdresser.
I'm rather surprised to know that they actually have guns on them.
With the Japanese police being the worlds laughing stock, that is.
Laughing stock? Are you fucking stupid? The police generally do a good and conscientious job, not like the corrupt polices forces of other countries.
You are right of course, what came over me.
It was way too enthusiastic of me to even consider them a police "force".
You obviously don't know how the japanese police don't have the balls to stand up to national yakuza syndicates - they do show trials, few washed up pansies, but don't have the guts to dismantle criminal networks like in other countries that eradicates them as they arise, and chases them to the end of the earth.
Also, corruption and cronyism run deep in japanese government agencies, when they are not busy having bitch fights about jurisdictions that is comparable to taiwanese parliment food fight.
@19:57 Are you fucking retarded? For a first world country, the U.S. police (PIGS) have to be lowest of the low.
@08:08
LOL is that why they are good at throwing uppity shits like you in jail to be assfucked?
Someones sounds real bitter too.