{"id":1546033,"date":"2022-07-09T17:04:24","date_gmt":"2022-07-09T21:04:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1546033"},"modified":"2022-07-09T17:04:32","modified_gmt":"2022-07-09T21:04:32","slug":"police-chief-accepts-responsibility-after-shocking-assassination-admits-guilt-regret","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/police-chief-accepts-responsibility-after-shocking-assassination-admits-guilt-regret\/","title":{"rendered":"Police Chief Accepts \u2018Responsibility\u2019 After Shocking Assassination, Admits \u2018Guilt\u2019, \u2018Regret\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">20<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fpolice-chief-accepts-responsibility-after-shocking-assassination-admits-guilt-regret%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1546033&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>The head of the police in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/topic\/japan\">Japanese<\/a> city where former Prime Minister <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/topic\/shinzo-abe\">Shinzo Abe<\/a> was assassinated said that he takes \u2018responsibility\u2019 for the security problems that allowed the popular leader to be killed.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Tomoaki Onizuka, police chief in Nara, told reporters that it was the worst feeling he has ever had in his career and that police were already looking at the mistakes in securing the area where Abe was giving a political speech for a parliamentary candidate seeking re-election. He <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/asia\/live-news\/shinzo-abe-japan-assassination-07-09-22-intl-hnk\/h_81952859b06498241d380843f47ee0ab\">said<\/a> that he \u201ctake[s] responsibility\u201d for the incident.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt is undeniable that there were problems with the security for former prime minister Abe, and we will immediately identify the problems and take appropriate measures to resolve them,\u201d Onizuka said.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAfter the first report of the incident came at 11:30 a.m., and the situation was revealed, it was the height of the guilt and regret I\u2019ve felt in my 27 years in law enforcement,\u201d he <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thedailybeast.com\/shinzo-abe-assassination-japans-police-chief-tomoaki-onizuka-takes-responsibility-for-security-failures\">added<\/a>. \u201cI feel the weight of my responsibility.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Police are still investigating the stunning assassination and the motive behind it. They <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2022\/07\/08\/motive-revealed-in-assassination-of-japans-ex-pm-shinzo-abe\/\">say<\/a> that early evidence suggests that the suspected killer, 41-year-old Tetsuya Yamagami,\u00a0was not politically motivated. They pointed to a link Yamagami had made between the Abe and a \u2018\u201dspecific organization.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The name or further details about the \u201cspecific organization\u201d police cited has not yet been revealed while authorities continue to investigate. However, sources have told the Japanese newspaper The Mainichi that the group in question was religious in nature.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Sources <a href=\"https:\/\/mainichi.jp\/english\/articles\/20220709\/p2a\/00m\/0na\/004000c\">told<\/a> the paper that the suspect \u201ctargeted Abe out of resentment\u201d and that he \u201cintended to kill Abe\u201d because he alleged his mom gave a substantial amount of money to a religious group he linked Abe with.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>He also apparently told police that he knew where Abe would be because of an announcement on the website of the candidate the former prime minister was speaking alongside.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI learned of Abe\u2019s campaign speech on the [candidate\u2019s] website. I went to the site by train,\u201d Yamagami said, according to one source. A gun used by the suspect was homemade, according to the police.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The assassination shocked world leaders as many called Abe a friend and praised him for his diplomacy with Taiwan\u2019s President\u00a0Tsai Ing-wen, saying the nation had lost a \u201cclose friend.\u201d Abe was vocal in recent years about the need to support Taiwan.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNot only has the international community lost an important leader, but Taiwan has also lost an important and close friend. Taiwan and Japan are both democratic countries with the rule of law, and our government severely condemns violent and illegal acts,\u201d Tsai stated.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The head of the police in the Japanese city where former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe was assassinated said that he takes \u2018responsibility\u2019 for the security problems that allowed the popular leader to be killed.\u00a0 Tomoaki Onizuka, police chief in Nara, told reporters that it was the worst feeling he has ever had in his career &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":200,"featured_media":1547318,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1546033","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1546033","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/200"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1546033"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1546033\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1547318"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1546033"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1546033"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1546033"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}