Tennis Player James Blake Tackled/Handcuffed By Police Over Mistaken Identity in NYC *Video Added*

[Alexander The Great]

Former American Tennis pro James Blake was tackled and handcuffed by five police officers outside his hotel in Manhattan, in case of mistaken identity. Officers believed he met the description of someone running an identity theft ring.

Blake said he had just answered a few questions from a writer for a tennis magazine and was texting when he looked up and saw someone in shorts and a T-shirt charging at him, splitting the doorman outside the Hyatt, an official hotel for the U.S. Tennis Association.

“Maybe I’m naïve, but I just assumed it was someone I went to high school with or something who was running at me to give me a big hug, so I smiled at the guy,” Blake said. Blake said the officer, who he said was not wearing a badge, picked him up and threw him down on the sidewalk, yelled at him to roll over on his face and said, “Don’t say a word.”

 

[Rekkapryde]

Guess he got "served"

 

[Carlos Huerta]

"I heard bad guys wear black, so I guess i'm the motherfukkin villain"

 

[ucanthandlethetruth]

The NYPD and police brutality how shocking
This is Blakes fault for never winning a grand slam, they would have never done this to Roger Federer

 

[holidayinn21]

“Maybe I’m naïve, but I just assumed it was someone I went to high school with or something who was running at me to give me a big hug, so I smiled at the guy,

Little did he realize he probably saved his own life by doing this.

 

[FaTaL]

He doesn't realize how close to death he came

He better sue

 

[Malta]

No badge and assaulting people, the way of NYPD.

 

[Alexander The Great]

He doesn't realize how close to death he came

He better sue

same cats that broke Thabo sefolosha's leg

 

[Rev]

Guess he got "served"

No......"love" in these NY streets.

 

[Vonte3000]

If buddy was in plain clothes what was the point of the tackle and running up on him like that? It's not like he was actually in uniform and the suspect would have seen him and took off.

 

[bdkane]

Even rich Ivy League mulatto brehs catchin the beats.

 

[Malcolmxxx_23]

Shocking

 

[Carlos Huerta]

If buddy was in plain clothes what was the point of the tackle and running up on him like that? It's not like he was actually in uniform and the suspect would have seen him and took off.

The point is that fukkhead cops think it's their job to get physical with people over anything

 

[Rekkapryde]

No......"love" in these NY streets.

 

[pickles]

He didn't even get an apology.