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Retired US Tennis Star Wrongly Arrested in New York

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Authorities in New York are investigating an incident involving retired U.S. tennis player James Blake, who says he was thrown to the ground and handcuffed by police while being mistaken for a suspect in a crime. Blake, who is in New York to attend the U.S. Open, told the New York Daily News he was standing outside the Grand Hyatt Hotel in midtown Manhattan Wednesday when a plainclothes police officer tackled him and told him to roll facedown on the ground. “To me it’s as simple as...

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