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Tag: US Open tennis

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Former US No. 1 James Blake ‘Slammed to Ground’ by Police in Mistaken Detention

by Washington Informer September 10, 2015October 30, 2020

(The Guardian) – The former US No 1 tennis player James Blake was wrestled to the ground and handcuffed in New York as he was preparing to attend the US Open on Wednesday. Blake, who is African-American, was detained by five white plainclothes police officers as he stood outside a Manhattan hotel. They had mistaken him for […]

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