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Video Shows NYPD Cop Tackle Former Tennis Star James Blake
by NBC NEWS
Video Captures Moment Cop Tackle James Blake to Ground 1:25
New York police released a surveillance video Friday that shows one of its undercover officers tackling and handcuffing former tennis star James Blake outside a Manhattan hotel on Wednesday, a case of mistaken identity that prompted apologies from the mayor and police commissioner.
The video opens with Blake leaning against a pillar outside the Grand Hyatt New York Hotel in the Midtown Manhattan. The officer, dressed in jeans and a white T-shirt, charges up to him, twists Blake's left arm behind him and throws him to the ground. The officer puts Blake in handcuffs, pulls him to his feet and leads him away.
The arrest occurred during the takedown of a suspected credit-card fraud ring that used the hotel for deliveries. Blake, in town for the U.S. Open, was misidentified by a cooperating witness as one of the suspects, police officials said.
Video Shows NYPD Cop Tackle Former Tennis Star James Blake
by NBC NEWS
Video Captures Moment Cop Tackle James Blake to Ground 1:25
New York police released a surveillance video Friday that shows one of its undercover officers tackling and handcuffing former tennis star James Blake outside a Manhattan hotel on Wednesday, a case of mistaken identity that prompted apologies from the mayor and police commissioner.
The video opens with Blake leaning against a pillar outside the Grand Hyatt New York Hotel in the Midtown Manhattan. The officer, dressed in jeans and a white T-shirt, charges up to him, twists Blake's left arm behind him and throws him to the ground. The officer puts Blake in handcuffs, pulls him to his feet and leads him away.
The arrest occurred during the takedown of a suspected credit-card fraud ring that used the hotel for deliveries. Blake, in town for the U.S. Open, was misidentified by a cooperating witness as one of the suspects, police officials said.
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