James Blake, American former Tennis pro, profiled and assaulted by NYPD due to his race

[Anonymous]

NYPD and Blake are lucky he didn't have some kind of heart condition. Or asthma. Someone could have died. Also could have very easily sprained a knee and broken the guys leg.

The assault/take down was unprovoked.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:A mistake...yeah...

The officer, James Frascatore, who is white, is a defendant in two federal lawsuits filed earlier that allege excessive force in separate incidents.

Last year, Frascatore was named in an amended complaint filed in federal court in Brooklyn alleging he and seven other officers and sergeants beat and unlawfully arrested a man in a Queens deli in May 2013.

The officer is named in a complaint filed in May alleging that officers used excessive force against a man named Warren Diggs for riding his bicycle on the sidewalk in 2013.
That's not a mistake...
That's a frigging pattern.

You people will not be happy until every police officer throws up his or her hands and walks away from the job. Then what will happen?

I'll be happy when police stop assaulting and murdering the people they are supposed to "protect and serve"

I'll be happy when males, mostly black, stop assaulting and murdering people, and therefore there is no need for police at all.

Attempting to provoke with your racism? Not biting.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:NYPD and Blake are lucky he didn't have some kind of heart condition. Or asthma. Someone could have died. Also could have very easily sprained a knee and broken the guys leg.

The assault/take down was unprovoked.

Unprovoked? What led to it?

[Anonymous]

I don't know if Blake was targeted based on his race and I don't know if cop was racist. I do know the cop was over aggressive given the situation. Even if the Blake was the actual perpetrator the way the cop went about it was unnecessary and borderline reckless. I don't think the issue has to be race dominated to see the wrong here. Maybe you police brutality cop defenders can try to see it from this perspective.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:What's that got to do with an over aggressive cop unnecessarily tackling an innocent civilian? Are you saying James Blake had it coming standing outside a hotel with his numerous tattoos and his pants hanging off his ass smoking a joint while commiserating with his lowlife thug friends?
Or did he have it coming because he was black and its a fact that all blacks are violent criminals so James is shit out of luck when it comes to equal treatment under the law?

Or did someone identify him to the police as an accessory to a crime and his race had nothing to do with it?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:A mistake...yeah...

The officer, James Frascatore, who is white, is a defendant in two federal lawsuits filed earlier that allege excessive force in separate incidents.

Last year, Frascatore was named in an amended complaint filed in federal court in Brooklyn alleging he and seven other officers and sergeants beat and unlawfully arrested a man in a Queens deli in May 2013.

The officer is named in a complaint filed in May alleging that officers used excessive force against a man named Warren Diggs for riding his bicycle on the sidewalk in 2013.
That's not a mistake...
That's a frigging pattern.

This means nothing as to the current incident and has nothing to indicate race was involved. The video is there for your to see as to the level of 'violence'. Got more?

Didn't say there was a pattern of racism but there does appear to be a pattern of excessive force and that pattern is equally unacceptable.
What exactly constitutes "too much" in your book that innocent civilians shouldn't tolerate from over aggressive cops --- bullets...blood...a few fractures perhaps?

Let's stick with Mr. Blake, did you watch the video of the 'take down'?

Not the PP you are addressing, but I am still willing to stick with Mr. Blake. The cops were looking for someone accused of credit card fraud, not a terror incident or the rape and murder of a pregnant woman. Do you really think Frascatore was justified in how he handled this arrest attempt?

Did you watch the video?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:NYPD and Blake are lucky he didn't have some kind of heart condition. Or asthma. Someone could have died. Also could have very easily sprained a knee and broken the guys leg.

The assault/take down was unprovoked.

Unprovoked? What led to it?

It was a sting operation. Cops misidentified person for criminal. Immediately confronted and tackled him.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:NYPD and Blake are lucky he didn't have some kind of heart condition. Or asthma. Someone could have died. Also could have very easily sprained a knee and broken the guys leg.

The assault/take down was unprovoked.

Unprovoked? What led to it?

You don't tackle someone standing outside a hotel minding their own business simply for suspicion of purchasing high-end shoes with fraudulent credit cards.
You don't resort to such unnecessary force unless that person poses a potential threat OR...wait for it...or unless the person is black evidently. Then you can whip their ass up and down the sidewalk apparently.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:NYPD and Blake are lucky he didn't have some kind of heart condition. Or asthma. Someone could have died. Also could have very easily sprained a knee and broken the guys leg.

The assault/take down was unprovoked.

Unprovoked? What led to it?

It was a sting operation. Cops misidentified person for criminal. Immediately confronted and tackled him.

So you have someone wrongly identified as a co-conspirator where a crime was committed and another already taken into custody. A take down that likely didn't need to be as aggressive but wasn't picked up and body slammed. Nor assaulted with tasers or beaten. It was later determined it was likely a case of mistaken identity with a further investigation to be completed. The fact he happened to be black renders it into being profiled and assaulted due to his race?

Some years ago the police in the city I lived in broke down the door to a house and charged in screaming with guns drawn. Turns out the person who filled out the warrant put down the wrong address. The police took some heavy flack and the city paid some reparations. The family was white. Mistaken identity and situations like that happen.

I abhor racism, always have. I have grown to almost abhor threads like this that attempts to tie race to every possible event.

BTW, I commend Mr. Blake not only for his demeanor while being unjustly, and roughly, arrested as well as what he has said and done since. And yes I noted he believed it could have been race related.

[Anonymous]

For the stubborn skeptics who fail to see the elements of racial undertones in this incident I encourage you to talk to your non-white colleagues and co-workers about the events that transpired and get their take on things. Situations such as this are often interpreted quite differently depending on who's shoes you're standing in and while you may refuse to see the rationale of anything an anonymous poster on this site says perhaps you'll be more receptive to the points and perspectives of an individual you respect face-to-face.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:NYPD and Blake are lucky he didn't have some kind of heart condition. Or asthma. Someone could have died. Also could have very easily sprained a knee and broken the guys leg.

The assault/take down was unprovoked.

Unprovoked? What led to it?

You don't tackle someone standing outside a hotel minding their own business simply for suspicion of purchasing high-end shoes with fraudulent credit cards.
You don't resort to such unnecessary force unless that person poses a potential threat OR...wait for it...or unless the person is black evidently. Then you can whip their ass up and down the sidewalk apparently.

If you watched the video then you are blatantly misrepresenting what happened. If not, watch it as your description doesn't match what happened.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I don't know if Blake was targeted based on his race and I don't know if cop was racist. I do know the cop was over aggressive given the situation. Even if the Blake was the actual perpetrator the way the cop went about it was unnecessary and borderline reckless. I don't think the issue has to be race dominated to see the wrong here. Maybe you police brutality cop defenders can try to see it from this perspective.

I have posted numerous challenges here and couldn't leave for the evening without telling you that I appreciate your comments!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I don't know if Blake was targeted based on his race and I don't know if cop was racist. I do know the cop was over aggressive given the situation. Even if the Blake was the actual perpetrator the way the cop went about it was unnecessary and borderline reckless. I don't think the issue has to be race dominated to see the wrong here. Maybe you police brutality cop defenders can try to see it from this perspective.

I have posted numerous challenges here and couldn't leave for the evening without telling you that I appreciate your comments!

I do too. Blake is one of the nicest guys on the tennis circuit. This officer was totally out of line. Was he targeting someone because of race? Possibly - but likely because he received a report about a black male.
That does not justify how Blake was tackled and treated.
I don’t know the details of the case, and I question if it was a race-targeted incident, but it is clearly a case of a police officer becoming too physical with a “suspect.”
I am a strong defenders of police officers, but when you see something like this, it tarnishes the reputations of all police officers.
Totally unnecessary.

[Anonymous]

It is incredibly relevant to note that not only did the NYPD assault the wrong Black guy, but the Black guy they mistook him for was ALSO innocent

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:NYPD and Blake are lucky he didn't have some kind of heart condition. Or asthma. Someone could have died. Also could have very easily sprained a knee and broken the guys leg.

The assault/take down was unprovoked.

Unprovoked? What led to it?

You don't tackle someone standing outside a hotel minding their own business simply for suspicion of purchasing high-end shoes with fraudulent credit cards.
You don't resort to such unnecessary force unless that person poses a potential threat OR...wait for it...or unless the person is black evidently. Then you can whip their ass up and down the sidewalk apparently.

If you watched the video then you are blatantly misrepresenting what happened. If not, watch it as your description doesn't match what happened.

Lol I'm an artist by trade its my job to embellish in the interest of illustration and even if you didn't know that I'm sure you knew I wasn't being literal. Come on now...you're too intelligent to be getting hung up on petty particulars don't go there.