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September 18, 2015

James Blake's Mom: "It Seems There's No End to Racism in This Country" 
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Betty Blake, the mother of retired tennis star James Blake, has written
about her son being tackled by NYPD officer James Frascatore. Video
footage shows Blake, who is biracial, standing outside Manhattan's Grand
Hyatt hotel when Officer James Frascatore approaches him, wraps an arm
around his neck, tackles him down, digs his knee into his back and
handcuffs him. Police say they mistakenly identified Blake as a suspect
in a credit card fraud probe. In an editorial for the New York Daily
News, Betty, who is white and grew up in England, wrote, "It seems
there's no end to racism in this country. In fact it seems to get
worse."

 

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