{"id":16730,"date":"2021-07-08T10:59:57","date_gmt":"2021-07-08T17:59:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.debito.org\/?p=16730"},"modified":"2021-07-08T20:47:34","modified_gmt":"2021-07-09T03:47:34","slug":"nikkan-sports-bystander-harasses-muslim-woman-and-3-year-old-daughter-in-park-demands-gaijin-card-then-calls-police-to-detain-interrogate-and-release-private-info-sitys","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/?p=16730","title":{"rendered":"Nikkan Sports: Aggressive Japanese man harasses Muslim woman and 3-year-old daughter in park, demands her Gaijin Card; then aggressive Japanese police detain, interrogate, and release the woman and child’s private info. I told you this would happen."},"content":{"rendered":"

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Hi Blog. I’ve written at length about how demonizing foreigners will lead to official racial profiling, and how deputizing the general public to target NJ will lead to abuse.<\/p>\n

Well, SITYS. (See I told you so.) Check out this article from Nikkan Sports. (Translation mine, corrections welcome<\/em>.)<\/p>\n

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Muslim Woman in Her Forties is Subjected to Wrongful Questioning by Police: Submits Complaint to Tokyo Public Safety Commission.<\/strong>
\nNikkan Sports, July 6, 2021, courtesy of lots of people<\/strong><\/p>\n

A Muslim woman in her forties from South Asia living in Tokyo, who was subjected to wrongful voluntary questioning by officers of the Tokyo Metropolitan Police and had her name, address, and other private details leaked to a third party, submitted a formal complaint to the Tokyo Public Safety Commission on July 5. Her legal representation criticized, “This is a use of public power grounded in discriminatory attitudes towards foreigners.”<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

According to documents from her legal group questioning the Tokyo Metropolitan Police and other connected people, on June 1, the woman was letting her 3-year-old daughter play in a neighborhood park when a man rushed up to her and claimed her daughter had knocked his son down. “Gaijin”, “show me your Zairyu Card”! He then called the police, and six officers rushed in and used rough language towards the woman (who has limited abilities in Japanese), saying things like, “Hey you (omae), you want us to believe you really can’t speak Japanese?” Following that, they took the woman and her daughter only to the nearest police station, and voluntarily interrogated them about two and a half hours.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

The woman and her daughter denied that she had knocked anyone down. However, they were not allowed to go home until they had acknowledged there had been some physical contact (boukou), and they had agreed to release their contact details and phone number to the man involved. On a later date, the police told the man more personal information, such as the names, ages, and address of the woman and her daughter so he could begin a civil lawsuit against her. It is said that Child Services were also contacted in case the woman would be unable to take care of her daughter.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

The woman claims that being alone and interrogated by four officers during questioning has made her unable to sleep due to PTSD.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

Her lawyer, Nishiyama Atsuko, pointed out that even though these are “voluntary” interrogations, foreign suspects often feel they cannot refuse police due to fear of forced deportation. Moreover, “Being a foreigner in itself is enough to justify wrongful treatment by the police. This situation is but the tip of the iceberg.”<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

The woman herself made the following statement to the press: “My daughter absolutely did not do what they said she did. Now that my address has been leaked, I’m uneasy and cannot live my life in peace. I want the police to be admonished so that they cannot repeat this sort of discriminatory behavior over and over again.”<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

ENDS (Original Japanese below comment<\/em>.)
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(More commentary by Debito.org Readers on a separate site from here<\/a><\/em>.)<\/p>\n

COMMENT<\/strong>: Look, it’s as I’ve said here<\/a> for decades, and in<\/a> a number<\/a> of books<\/a>: When you train police to see foreigners as social destabilizers<\/a>, that’s how foreigners will be treated in most circumstances involving them. When the only tool in your training is a hammer, every problem looks like a nail.<\/p>\n

Nowadays, when you get people who aren’t trained police at all made\u00a0aware that foreigners have Gaijin Cards<\/a> (more specifically Zairyuu Cards), and who are now\u00a0not only encouraged but also empowered by official online apps to demand them<\/a>, then you have people in a social status so weak that there will be abuses by bullies, or by anyone on a power trip.<\/p>\n

And that’s clearly what happened here. \u00a0Let’s recap: \u00a0A man accuses a three-year-old kid of assault, gets aggressive with a Muslim woman (and reportedly SPECIFICALLY demands her Gaijin Card), and then siccs six also-aggressive cops on her. \u00a0Then the cops cart only her and her toddler daughter off to the nearest cop shop for hours of interrogation, and hold her hostage until she releases her private information to this strange man. \u00a0And later cops give that man even more information in case he decides to sue a three-year-old!<\/p>\n

Clearly this has been blown out of proportion. \u00a0And the cops abetted it! \u00a0What a nightmare.<\/p>\n

I’m pleased the woman sought out legal representation and filed the formal complaint with the Public Safety Commission. \u00a0But that will probably result in nothing. \u00a0(I’ve done the same for over-the-top police reactions in the past, and never gotten any satisfactory conclusion<\/a>.) \u00a0You can’t expect much when it’s wolves policing other wolves.<\/p>\n

So I hope she files an actual civil suit against the police and the person who harassed her and her daughter, so we can get some legal precedent behind this complaint. We need some kind of damper put on all the social damage done by the Japanese police demonizing foreigners for decades, and then deputizing the general public to target them.<\/p>\n

Finally, kudos to Nikkan Sports and Kyodo News for taking this issue up. \u00a0Here’s hoping more media pays attention to this case. \u00a0Debito Arudou, Ph.D.<\/p>\n

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Original Japanese:<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

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https:\/\/www.nikkansports.com\/general\/news\/202107050001193.html<\/a><\/p>\n

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Nikkan Sports: “A Muslim woman in her forties from South Asia living in Tokyo, who was subjected to wrongful voluntary questioning by officers of the Tokyo Metropolitan Police and had her name, address, and other private details leaked to a third party, submitted a formal complaint to the Tokyo Public Safety Commission on July 5. Her legal representation criticized, “This is a use of public power grounded in discriminatory attitudes towards foreigners.”<\/p>\n

COMMENT: Let’s summarize this case: \u00a0A man accuses a three-year-old kid of assault, gets aggressive with a Muslim woman (and reportedly SPECIFICALLY demands her Gaijin Card), and then siccs six also-aggressive cops on her. \u00a0Then the cops cart only her and her toddler daughter off to the nearest cop shop for hours of interrogation, and hold her hostage until she releases her private information to this strange man. \u00a0And later they give that man even more information in case he decides to sue a three-year-old! \u00a0Clearly this has been blown out of proportion. \u00a0And the cops abetted it! \u00a0What a nightmare.<\/p>\n

I’m pleased the woman sought out legal representation and filed the formal complaint with the Public Safety Commission. \u00a0But that will probably result in nothing. \u00a0(I’ve done the same for over-the-top police reactions in the past, and never gotten any satisfactory conclusion.) \u00a0You can’t expect much when it’s wolves policing other wolves. So I hope she files an actual civil suit against the police and the person who harassed her and her daughter, so we can get some legal precedent behind this complaint. We need some kind of damper put on all the social damage done by the Japanese police demonizing foreigners for decades, and then deputizing the general public to target them.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[67,54,33,52,5,37,10,11,64,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16730","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-embedded-racism","category-pinprick-protests","category-fingerprinting-nj","category-hate-speech","category-human-rights","category-injustice","category-japanese-policeforeign-crime","category-problematic-foreign-treatment","category-sitys","category-8"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16730","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=16730"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16730\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16739,"href":"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16730\/revisions\/16739"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16730"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16730"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16730"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}