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Being a former tennis star while black.........
(BBC) New York City police officers have mistakenly detained a former professional tennis player as he waited for a car to take him to the US Open.
James Blake told the New York Daily News that a group of five plainclothes officers slammed him to the ground and held him for 15 minutes on Wednesday.
The police said in a statement that the officers mistakenly believed he was a suspect in a theft case.
Once it was determined that Mr Blake was not the suspect, he was released.
Mr Blake, 35, said he suffered a cut on his arm and bruises on his legs. He said the officers did not speak to him before they pushed him to the ground.
"You'd think they could say: 'Hey, we want to talk to you. We are looking in to something'," Mr Blake told the Daily News. .....................(more)
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-34205643
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