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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=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.[/quote]

Unprovoked? What led to it?[/quote]

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

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.[/quote]

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