The Tokyo District Court ordered the Tokyo Metropolitan Government on Tuesday to pay 6.3 million yen in damages to a Chinese man who was wrongfully shot by a police officer in January 2002 and partially paralyzed.
The 34-year-old man’s right leg was left paralyzed after the Metropolitan Police Department officer shot him in the spinal cord, according to the court.
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