re: NYPD releases James Blake video

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here did you see that? He didn't trust at all.


It appears to me that Blake attempts to resist arrest by shoving or possibly trying to disarm the police officer when they both almost go out of the frame.

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So you get jumped from behind out of no where in a hotel lobby-- you just let someone beat you up, you don't even try to resist? If anything Blake was too passive its not like the cop ID'd himself it could have been a crazy stalker.

They look so similar that I can understand why the witness thought it was the suspect.

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This is a big to do about nothing.

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Yea, a man waiting on his towncar should just expect to be tackled to the ground and cuffed by an unidentified person.

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The witness identified Blake as the suspect and looking at the photos of Blake and the suspect, Blake looks very similar to the suspect except the suspect looks like he has slightly darker skin but the photo itself appears to be darker than the photo of Blake.

Since there was no audio, the undercover cop may have been telling Blake he was a cop as he grabbed Blake and wrestled him to the ground but Blake may not have heard it.

BTW, you are talking to a man who has been jumped on by the police twice while I was just walking down the street minding my own business.

One time I was grabbed and pushed up against a chain link fence from behind by a cop who thought I was a suspect who committed murder.

I didn't know it was a cop until after he grabbed me and pushed me up against the fence.

Fortunately for me, the suspect had a tattoo on his left shoulder and I don't so the cop released me and apologized for having mistaken me for the murder suspect.

The other time, I was walking down the street minding my own business when an unmarked police car literally was driven onto the sidewalk right in front of me and two undercover cops jumped out and grabbed me.

This time I saw them coming but I didn't know they were cops until after they grabbed me when they identified themselves as cops.

Fortunately, I did not resist them otherwise I probably would have been wrestled to the ground.

They told me I looked just like a suspect they were looking for who robbed a bank right around the corner the day before.

Then they pulled out a photo of the suspect and looked at it.

I asked then to show it to me and the suspect didn't look anything like me except he had the same color hair and was white and thin like me.

I told the two undercover cops that the suspect didn't look anything like me and jokingly said that I was much better looking. The cops looked at the photo again for about 15 seconds then said, "Well, your earlobes look similar."

Then they told me they were detaining me until their Sargent showed up to decide if I was the suspect in the photo.

I was detained for about a half an hour and during that time I walked with them up the block and into a grocery store so they could buy some cigarettes.

We just chatted until the Sargent came and he looked at the photo and me.

Then he turned to the two undercover cops and said, "Let this man go. He doesn't look anything like the suspect."

I said to the Sargent, "I agree because I am much better looking than the suspect."

The Sargent laughed and as we shook hands he apologized for the two cops detaining me.

So don't accuse me of not knowing how it feels to be grabbed and pushed by the police when you have done nothing wrong and are just standing around minding your own business.

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My 4 downvoters are just upset that everyone isn't a cophater.

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What if he had played football instead of tennis? We might have been watching a fight.

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Do they teach you how to fight? I don't mean bullshite joint manipulation but do they teach you basic skills like how to stop a low single or how to defend off your back? The guy in the video did all kinds of things wrong. If that tennis player knew anything at all he would have been on that cop like stink on shite and there wouldn't have been a damn thing the cop could have done about it.

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If he lied then he should be gone. Once you lie you are done. I screwed up many times over my 25 year career. I am human. When I did I took my lumps and never lied about it.

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Or you were just lucky enough not to have had cell phone cameras around to bust your arse roughing people up for no reason.

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Or you were just lucky enough not to have had cell phone cameras around to bust your arse roughing people up for no reason.

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You are lucky that there were no cameras around to film what you have gotten away with, you POS!

You're asian aren't you? Maybe you should consider facial reconstruction because you sure do get your identity mistaken a lot.

Incidents like this make you realize just how easily you could get killed by a cop for concealed carrying.

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Sargent

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Sergeant. Sergeant. I hate to be a spelling Nazi but you did it five times.

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So you're cool with non uniformed unidentified officers taking down people in the street for nonviolent offenses with no prior history without identifying themselves?


First of all, he didn't take down the suspect until the suspect started resisting. Secondly, there is no evidence to suggest the officer did not identify himself other than Blake's assertion.

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Other than you know...past complaints about that exact thing.

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i still don't know how the vid exonerates the cop.

they got the wrong fricking dude.


The claim is "excessive force." The video clearly disproves that.

As I said before this is a PR campaign due to the white guilt this country is struggling with. It was a black suspect who resisted being detained by a hard working white police officer. The NYPD didn't want riots and looting so they made an example of a good police officer.

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So basically in your mind this is a good arrest, I mean wrong charge but obviously to you Blake was guilty of resisting arrest which is a crime.