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Nearly five years later, former tennis star James Blake says he never suspected the large man running toward him was a plainclothes New York City policeman.“I thought someone was running at me that was a fan, someone that was going to say, ‘Hey I saw you play so and so, I was at this match, my kid plays tennis,'” Blake recalled. “I'm smiling with my hands down.”
“I went to bed very sad and very deflated, seeing this over and over again,” Blake said Tuesday from his home in San Diego. “I woke up in the middle of the night and couldn’t stop my mind from racing, thinking about the events that took place there, the events that took place with me in 2015. ... Voting is one way forward, he said, including in local elections. He supports peaceful protest, and said it's possible no arrest in the Floyd case would have been made without the recent demonstrations in Minneapolis and elsewhere.
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