{"id":42698,"date":"2015-09-13T23:38:56","date_gmt":"2015-09-13T23:38:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=42698"},"modified":"2015-09-13T23:46:11","modified_gmt":"2015-09-13T23:46:11","slug":"james-blake-doesnt-want-nypd-cop-who-tackled-him-to-ever-have-a-badge-and-gun-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=42698","title":{"rendered":"James Blake doesn\u2019t want NYPD cop who tackled him to \u2018ever have a badge and gun again&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nydailynews.com\/sports\/more-sports\/james-blake-nypd-badge-gun-article-1.2358086\" target=\"_blank\">James Blake doesn\u2019t want NYPD cop who tackled him to \u2018ever have a badge and gun again&#8217;<\/a><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nydailynews.com\" target=\"_blank\">The New York Daily News<\/a><br \/>\n2015-09-12<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nydailynews.com\/authors?author=Wayne-Coffey\" target=\"_blank\">Wayne Coffey<\/a><\/strong>, Special Reporter<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.journalism.columbia.edu\/profile\/122-rich-schapiro\/\" target=\"_blank\"><b>Rich Schapiro<\/b><\/a>, Staff Writer<\/p>\n<p>Retired tennis star <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/James_Blake_(tennis)\" target=\"_blank\">James Blake<\/a> said Saturday the <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/New_York_City_Police_Department\" target=\"_blank\">NYPD<\/a> cop who brutally wrestled him to the ground should be served his walking papers.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nydailynews.com\/sports\/more-sports\/james-blake-nypd-badge-gun-article-1.2358086\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/assets.nydailynews.com\/polopoly_fs\/1.2358081.1442072979!\/img\/httpImage\/image.jpg_gen\/derivatives\/article_970\/blake13s-4-web.jpg?enlarged\" alt=\"\" width=\"350\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cI want him to know what he did was wrong, and that in my opinion he doesn\u2019t deserve to ever have a badge and a gun again, because he doesn\u2019t know how to handle that responsibility effectively,\u201d Blake, 35, told the <em>Daily News<\/em>. \u201cHe doesn\u2019t deserve to have the same title as officers who are doing good work and are really helping keep the rest of the city safe.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/4XnR-Ftv5kQ?rel=0\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Blake called on the NYPD to can Officer James Frascatore a day after the department released disturbing video showing the <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/WWE\" target=\"_blank\">WWE<\/a>-style takedown outside a Midtown hotel Wednesday&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;Blake initially said he believed race was a factor in the rough arrest. But asked Saturday whether he thought white tennis stars such as <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Andy_Roddick\" target=\"_blank\">Andy Roddick<\/a> or <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Mardy_Fish\" target=\"_blank\">Mardy Fish<\/a> would have been treated the same way, he demurred.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI don\u2019t want to say that at all because I think that muddies the issue at hand,\u201d said Blake, who was born to a black father and a white mother. \u201cIn this incident it was the excessive force that\u2019s really the issue, because it was a nonviolent crime.\u201d&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Read the entire article <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nydailynews.com\/sports\/more-sports\/james-blake-nypd-badge-gun-article-1.2358086\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>James Blake doesn\u2019t want NYPD cop who tackled him to \u2018ever have a badge and gun again&#8217; The New York Daily News 2015-09-12 Wayne Coffey, Special Reporter Rich Schapiro, Staff Writer Retired tennis star James Blake said Saturday the NYPD cop who brutally wrestled him to the ground should be served his walking papers. \u201cI [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,1467,8,20],"tags":[21014,21048,2711,596,1463,21050,7222,21018,18849,21049],"class_list":["post-42698","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-law","category-media-archive","category-usa","tag-james-blake","tag-james-frascatore","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-new-york-daily-news","tag-rich-schapiro","tag-sports","tag-tennis","tag-the-new-york-daily-news","tag-wayne-coffey"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42698","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=42698"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42698\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42702,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42698\/revisions\/42702"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=42698"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=42698"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=42698"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}