Former tennis star still shaken by encounter with cop in '15

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https://sports.yahoo.com/former-tennis-star-still-shaken-encounter-cop-15-200857622--ten.html
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Nearly five years later, former tennis star James Blake says he never suspected the large man running toward him was a plainclothes New York City policeman.

Blake was in town that day for the U.S. Open and standing outside a Manhattan hotel.

''I thought someone was running at me that was a fan, someone that was going to say, 'Hey I saw you play so and so, I was at this match, my kid plays tennis,''' Blake recalled. ''I'm smiling with my hands down.''

But Blake, who is black, had been mistakenly identified as a suspect in a credit card fraud scheme. Video showed the undercover officer grabbing him by the arm, throwing him to the sidewalk face down and handcuffing him.

All of which intensified Blake's reaction to video of George Floyd's death shortly after being detained by Minneapolis police last week.

''I went to bed very sad and very deflated, seeing this over and over again,'' Blake said Tuesday from his home in San Diego. ''I woke up in the middle of the night and couldn't stop my mind from racing, thinking about the events that took place there, the events that took place with me in 2015. ...

''It saddens me to see that kind of policing is still going on, that kind of brutality, particularly how often it is aimed at the black and brown community.''

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I remember that day in 2015 as if it were yesterday. In hindsight James is lucky to be alive. Was that cop ever fired?