James Blake, former tennis star, slammed to ground and handcuffed outside midtown hotel by white NYPD cops who mistook him for ID theft suspect
James Blake, a former professional tennis player once ranked No. 4 in the world, was reportedly slammed to the ground and handcuffed outside his hotel Wednesday by police who mistook him for someone else.
All the officers involved were white and they mistook Blake, who is black, for a suspect involved in an identity theft ring. Blake was waiting for a car to take him to the U.S. Open when the alleged incident occurred. "You'd think they could say, 'Hey, we want to talk to you. We are looking into something," Blake said. "I was just standing there. I wasn't running. It's not even close (to be okay). It's blatantly unnecessary. You would think at some point they would get the memo that this isn't okay, but it seems that there's no stopping it."
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