The picture NYPD used to arrest James Blake was of respected Australian designer Sean Satha

[Unknown Beatle]

On the right is Sean Satha, who is not James Blake, and was also not stealing anything in New York City


James Blake

Let me try to unravel this incompetent mess.

The New York Police Department trusted a man with enough racial profiling and brutality complaints filed against him to last a lifetime, Officer James Frascatore, to investigate an identity theft complaint that they believed focused on a black man that looked like tennis star James Blake.

Except, we now know the man they thought they were looking for had nothing to do with the identity theft at all. His name is Sean Satha and he is an Australian sunglass designer working for a popular company called Local Supply. Not only did Sean Satha have nothing to do with the identity theft, he wasn't even on the continent when the NYPD was armed with his photo and began looking for him in a midtown Manhattan hotel lobby.

The NYPD claims a company called GoButler gave them Sean Satha's photo, but they now admit that neither Sean Satha or James Blake had anything at all to do with this case of identity theft. Basically, this all confirms that the last agency you ever want investigating a case of identity theft is the NYPD—which has clearly shown it will railroad every black man in sight in the name of solving a case.

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[haele]

1. Why would GoButler give the NYPD the photo of Satha as the identity theif?

GoButler provides assistant services and application that's popular.
Is this a case of "SWATing" a troublesome customer gone awry? ("Don't abuse our service/pay up on time, or we'll send the NYPD after you...&quot

And why wouldn't the NYPD verify the photo before sending it out to a racist bully to find someone who sorta-kinda may look similar from a distance?

Haele

[JustAnotherGen]

2. They don't look a god damned thing alike n/t

[yardwork]

5. I noticed that too.

[Rex]

3. Seems you can be rich or poor, doesn't matter if you are black.

You are still a target...social status be dammed. NYPD is a discrace.

[malaise]

4. And they make it up as they go along

happilly terrorizing African Americans with support from many in the establishment.

[meow2u3]

8. How can cops confuse an African-American with an indigenous Australian?

Are they that stupid? or just blind white supremacists looking for an excuse to justify cracking black skulls?

[malaise]

9. We all look alike

[Downwinder]

6. Was Sean Satha the closest match

they could find to James Blake?

[Cheese Sandwich]

7. That's typical police work. It's only big news because they hit a celebrity. nt