James Blake doesn’t want NYPD cop who tackled him to ‘ever have a badge and gun again’Posted in Articles, Law, Media Archive, United States on 2015-09-13 23:38Z by Steven |
James Blake doesn’t want NYPD cop who tackled him to ‘ever have a badge and gun again’
The New York Daily News
2015-09-12
Wayne Coffey, Special Reporter
Rich Schapiro, Staff Writer
Retired tennis star James Blake said Saturday the NYPD cop who brutally wrestled him to the ground should be served his walking papers.
“I want him to know what he did was wrong, and that in my opinion he doesn’t deserve to ever have a badge and a gun again, because he doesn’t know how to handle that responsibility effectively,” Blake, 35, told the Daily News. “He doesn’t deserve to have the same title as officers who are doing good work and are really helping keep the rest of the city safe.”
Blake called on the NYPD to can Officer James Frascatore a day after the department released disturbing video showing the WWE-style takedown outside a Midtown hotel Wednesday…
…Blake initially said he believed race was a factor in the rough arrest. But asked Saturday whether he thought white tennis stars such as Andy Roddick or Mardy Fish would have been treated the same way, he demurred.
“I don’t want to say that at all because I think that muddies the issue at hand,” said Blake, who was born to a black father and a white mother. “In this incident it was the excessive force that’s really the issue, because it was a nonviolent crime.”…
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