The Game turned himself in after punching an off-duty police officer during a pick-up basketball game, but the debacle isn't over yet: The man is suing the rapper for $12 million in damages following the incident, according to HipHopDX. The officer, Onyebuchi Awaji, alleges that he may have suffered brain damage as a result of the blow. He also claims that Game threatened to kill him.
DX broke down the $12 million by categorical damages: $1 million for pain and suffering, $1 million for emotional distress, $50,000 for medical damages to date, another $100,000 for future medical costs, and then a whopping $10 million for punitive damages.
Awaji hasn't released any medical records to suggest whether or not he was truly and traumatically injured during the basketball game. Game has proclaimed his innocence, claiming self-defense and that Awaji threatened to shoot him (and not vice versa). The video of the incident (which you can watch below) doesn't lend much credence to either man's story. Game's "self-defense" argument seems like an awful stretch, unless that man were literally playing basketball with a gun in his shorts. And although it's impossible to prove that the plaintiff didn't suffer a concussion or other damage from the blow, he didn't lose consciousness following the punch, taking it square in the cheek.
We'll see what it all works out to. Stay tuned.
