Cop shot blind man.AN inquiry was launched yesterday into how a blind man was shot in the stomach with a plastic bullet plastic bullet Noun a solid PVC cylinder fired by the police in riot control plastic bullet n → bala de goma plastic bullet n → by police. Armed officers went to a flat after a 999 call that a resident had threatened a man with a gun. After four hours they stormed the address in Gosforth, Newcastle, and shot the 54-year-old, who had tunnel vision tunnel vision n. Vision in which the visual field is severely constricted. tunnel vision, n a defect in sight in which a great reduction occurs in the peripheral field of vision, as if one is looking through . He was allegedly holding a gun. The man was arrested and taken to hospital on Thursday with bruising. Last night he was in police custody. The Independent Police Complaints Commission will investigate. |
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