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Clearly this sounds like a bad reaction from the police. I'd think differently if Blake had displayed a weapon or a threatening attitude or movement. The witness who identified him was wrong, and the real criminal looked just like Blake, but that doesn't give the cops the excuse to act the way they did.
Many NY cops act like gangsters, they enjoy using brute force and they all cover each other's backs. Make sure people stay vigilant and film every police brutality. I've seen NYPD tackle elderly people in NYC with excessive force.
They said today that the picture they had was also a guy who turned out to be innocent. Regardless, it was the methods used people are upset about, not the i.d. error.
He is biracial (black father, white mother). Blake doesn't identify himself as a "black" man, he identifies himself as biracial. I'm not sure why people label him as a "light skinned black man?"
It's the U.S., biracial or no you'll get identified as black one way or another if you have any black parentage or black features. The reason someone who looks like Blake is labelled black is because basically every black (American) person has a relative or many who look like that with 2 black parents. I certainly do, so he looks black to me. He could also be a number of other things and half of those are also groups with black ancestry.
And let's be honest, even though he identifies as biracial, the police definitely thought he was black enough to treat like crap.
It's the U.S., biracial or no you'll get identified as black one way or another if you have any black parentage or black features. The reason someone who looks like Blake is labelled black is because basically every black (American) person has a relative or many who look like that with 2 black parents. I certainly do, so he looks black to me. He could also be a number of other things and half of those are also groups with black ancestry.
And let's be honest, even though he identifies as biracial, the police definitely thought he was black enough to treat like crap.
You specifically stated that he is a light skinned black man, when in fact, he's biracial and chooses to identify as biracial, (since his father is black and his mom is white). Although the police were wrong for slamming him to the ground, let's not pretend that Blake was simply targeted out of the blue due to his racial composition. The suspect resembles Blake, (which explains why he was mistaken as the suspect).
James Blake and his wife (permission to use imagery from fabwabs blog website):
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