TOKYO (TR) – Tokyo Metropolitan Police have arrested a 21-year-old male university student for allegedly assaulting a police officer in Shinjuku Ward, reports TV Asahi (July 16).
On Tuesday, Atsumu Koizumi, a fourth-year student at Rikkyo University in the capital, allegedly struck the male officer, aged in his 30s, in the face during a disturbance on a road.
Upon his arrest on suspicion of interfering with the duties of a public official, Koizumi denied the allegations.
Prior to the incident, Koizumi had been out drinking with the three other persons. Thereafter, they then got into a dispute with a male passerby.
The incident took place when the officer arrived at the scene to break up the dispute.
