From the Yomuiri Shimbun: Man resisting arrest shoots cop in buttock.

     A police sergeant was shot in the buttock at point-blank range by a man who grabbed his gun while resisting arrest on suspicion of stealing from a roadside vending machine in Tagawa, Fukuoka Prefecture, early Friday, police said.

     The sergeant arrived at the scene at about 4:40 a.m. with two other officers after a security company reported to Tagawa Police Station that a vending machine on a national highway selling DVDs and other items had been ransacked about 20 minutes earlier, according to the police.

     The police tried to restrain two men they found in a car near the scene. One, Akira Uranaka, 29, of Kama in the prefecture and a member of the Taishu-kai crime syndicate, tried to escape, but was caught by an officer about 40 meters away. The other, unemployed Masamichi Oda, 21, of Tagawa, tried to break free when being held by the other two officers, grabbed the 29-year-old sergeant's gun from his holster and shot him.

      Since nothing more is said I think we can safely assume that the officer is going to make a full recovery.  No matter how much time passes he will be hearing about this form his buddies until the day he dies.  I would also venture a guess that he is going to be shopping for a level 3 holster as well.  This time its funny, but it reinforces the lesson that weapon retention is important for any one who carries a weapon.  The only thing worse than being shot is being shot with your own gun.

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