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Video which shows james blake standing in front of a manhattan hotel this week when suddenly a plain clothesed officer rushes at him, grabs him by the arm and neck and pulls him facedown on the sidewalk. nypd commissioner later apologized explain that blake looked so much like the suspect the police were looking for in this credit card fraud investigation a he could have been his, quote, twin brother. blake says while he does appreciate that apology, it is not enough. he is planning to meet with the police department this as it comes to light the officer who arrested him has been accused of ex...

Officers charge with racially of profiling a suspect, putting him in handcuffs, then beating him and directing racial slur toward him. in another case he was one of five officers accused of beating someone up who was riding their bicycle on a sidewalk. that was in queens. interestingly, cnn has. learned that the city of new york just yesterday has decided to try and settle these lawsuits before going to court obviously. trying to set with these accusers. of course, you heard james blake earlier, this officer could be facing a third lawsuit now. they haven't decided whether or not they're going...

Would say to him i don't think he deserves to ever have that badge again. >> you think he should lose his job? >> i do think he should lose this job over this. i don't think this is the right job for him. to take that kind of a tone and that kind of an attitude towards this situation, a non-violent criminal, if i had been the criminal i still think this is excessive and it shouldn't have happened the way it did. and i just don't think that's the right position for him to be in. he's abusing that power that he has. >> james blake, it's a pleasure. >> thanks. >> best of luck to you. >> fascinati...

I don't want to muddy this situation, muddy this incident that really needs to create change in the police brutality, in the account it of these police officers with the racial issue. i think there's probably -- there probably is a gray area with bill bratton being so clear one way and my mom being so clear the other way. i'm sure there is a gray area. and somewhere in the middle that we could talk about but i think that's for a really different discussion. >> you think it's excessive force, that is the main issue when it comes to this. >> yes. >> and the officer has been investigated several ...

Arrests a year. 23 million citizen contacts. some of these are not going to go well. the vast majority of contacts, vast majority of arrests go peacefully. so this is an aberration, as i said, i don't see why this level of force was needed for this type of arrest. i don't know what this officer's experience is. people may have resisted him in the past, what have you. but in this particular instance, it seems to not be appropriate. >> he was plain clothes. tackled him to the ground. james blake says you wonder how many times it's happened without anyone knowing, because he's famous we all know ...