james blake
The officer is seeking $75,000 in damages for emotional distress and slander.
Blake had been misidentified as a suspect in a crime.
“With transparency comes public understanding and with public understanding comes public support."
"Black lives matter. Latino lives matter. Non-celebrity lives matter. It's high time the city acknowledged that."
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Patrick Lynch has a lot of venom for "arm-chair judges."
"This officer didn't treat his badge with respect and honor the way we're supposed to."
The officer seen in the video has a lengthy list of complaints against him.
There is no way to prove race played a role in the NYPD tackling James Blake, but that doesn't mean we shouldn't ask if it did.
"There's no reason for anybody to do that to anybody."
