{"id":42658,"date":"2015-09-11T02:02:44","date_gmt":"2015-09-11T02:02:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=42658"},"modified":"2015-09-11T02:02:44","modified_gmt":"2015-09-11T02:02:44","slug":"the-twisted-irony-of-the-nypd-wrongly-assaulting-and-detaining-black-tennis-star-james-blake","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=42658","title":{"rendered":"The twisted irony of the NYPD wrongly assaulting and detaining black tennis star James Blake"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailykos.com\/story\/2015\/09\/10\/1420046\/-The-twisted-irony-of-the-NYPD-wrongly-assaulting-arresting-James-Blake-in-an-identity-theft-case\" target=\"_blank\">The twisted irony of the NYPD wrongly assaulting and detaining black tennis star James Blake<\/a><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailykos.com\" target=\"_blank\">The Daily Kos<\/a><br \/>\n2015-09-10<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ShaunKing\" target=\"_blank\">Shawn King<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Yeah. <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nydailynews.com\/sports\/more-sports\/ex-tennis-star-james-blake-mistakenly-tackled-white-cops-article-1.2353983?cid=bitly\" target=\"_blank\">This really happened<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Retired black tennis star <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/James_Blake_(tennis)\" target=\"_blank\">James Blake<\/a>, in an <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/New_York_City_Police_Department\" target=\"_blank\">NYPD<\/a> double-fault, was slammed to a <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Manhattan\" target=\"_blank\">Manhattan<\/a> sidewalk and handcuffed by a white cop in a brutal case of mistaken identity.<\/p>\n<p>The 35-year-old Blake, once ranked No. 4 in the world, suffered a cut to his left elbow and bruises to his left leg as five plainclothes cops eventually held him for 15 minutes Wednesday outside the Grand Hyatt Hotel.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt was definitely scary and definitely crazy,\u201d <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nydailynews.com\/sports\/more-sports\/ex-tennis-star-james-blake-mistakenly-tackled-white-cops-article-1.2353983?cid=bitly\" target=\"_blank\">Blake told the <em>Daily News<\/em><\/a>. \u201cIn my mind there\u2019s probably a race factor involved, but no matter what there\u2019s no reason for anybody to do that to anybody.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Of course, Blake is right. This absolutely should not have happened, but that much is a obvious to all of us. There are questions we should be asking, though&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Read the entire article <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailykos.com\/story\/2015\/09\/10\/1420046\/-The-twisted-irony-of-the-NYPD-wrongly-assaulting-arresting-James-Blake-in-an-identity-theft-case\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The twisted irony of the NYPD wrongly assaulting and detaining black tennis star James Blake The Daily Kos 2015-09-10 Shawn King Yeah. This really happened. Retired black tennis star James Blake, in an NYPD double-fault, was slammed to a Manhattan sidewalk and handcuffed by a white cop in a brutal case of mistaken identity. 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