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U.S. NEWSFriday 11 September 2015
NYC police boss, mayor apologize to ex-tennis pro Arizona police
TOM HAYS In this 2013 photo, James Blake plays tennis at the French sified when a cooperating confirmed 11th
Associated Press Open tournament in Paris. Internal affairs detectives are witness misidentified Blake
NEW YORK (AP) — The New investigating claims by Blake that he was thrown to the as a suspect while Blake was vehicle attack
York City police commission- ground and then handcuffed while mistakenly being arrested standing outside the hotel
er and mayor offered apol- Wednesday, Sept. 9, 2015, at a New York hotel, police said. waiting to head to the U.S. PAUL DAVENPORT
ogies to tennis star James Open. Blake said he looked JACQUES BILLEAUD
Blake Thursday as officials (AP Photo/Michel Spingler) up from his cellphone and Associated Press
scrambled to deal with fall- saw a plainclothes officer PHOENIX (AP) — Arizona
out from his mistaken arrest Earlier on Thursday, the tel, where detectives were charging him before he was authorities confirmed Thurs-
outside a Manhattan hotel. 35-year-old Blake said he investigating a credit card body-slammed. day that 11 vehicles area
The officer who forcefully was never told why he was fraud ring that was having “I was standing there doing have been shot with bul-
arrested Blake was also put forced to the ground and retail items brought there nothing — not running, not lets or other projectiles in
on desk duty as the epi- handcuffed. by a delivery service, police resisting, in fact, smiling,” the last two weeks, nearly
sode became a headache “I’d like an explanation for said. A retailer had given Blake said. all of them on freeways in
for the department at a how they conducted them- police a photo of a man Blake told officers to check the Phoenix area.
time when the city is host- selves because I think we all who was involved, police his identification, and he The latest confirmed shoot-
ing the U.S. Open, one of need to be held account- said. was released. He said the ing involved a commercial
tennis’ premier events and able for our actions, and “If you look at that photo, officer never identified him- truck whose driver report-
where Blake has been a fan police as well,” Blake said it is a remarkable likeness self. ed a bullet hole in the car-
favorite. on ABC’s “Good Morning of Mr. James Blake,” Chief The NYPD took the arresting go area Thursday morning.
“I spoke to Mr. Blake a short America.” of Detectives Robert Boyce officer off the street while The driver had been mak-
time ago and personally The mishap unfolded said at a hastily called news it conducts an internal in- ing deliveries for hours, and
apologized for yesterday’s Wednesday outside the conference. “They look like vestigation. After seeing a wasn’t sure when or where
incident,” Police Commis- Grand Hyatt New York ho- twins.” The confusion inten- security video of the officer the truck was shot, Arizona
sioner William Bratton said grabbing Blake, forcing him Department of Public Safe-
in a statement Thursday to the sidewalk and rear- ty spokesman Raul Garcia
evening. “Mr. Blake said he handcuffing him, the com- said.
would like to meet with the missioner said, “I have con- Most of the vehicles hit
mayor and me at a future cerns about the takedown.” since the gunfire began on
date, which we would be Part of the internal inquiry Aug. 29 were traveling on
agreeable to.” will focus on why the chain Interstate 10, a main route
Mayor Bill de Blasio, speak- of command wasn’t noti- through central and west
ing on cable’s NY1, also fied of the mistake. Phoenix. No one has been
publicly apologized saying “Mr. Blake has made a seriously injured, but one
of his arrest, “this shouldn’t number of comments to the bullet shattered a wind-
have happened and he press — that’s how we first shield, and broken glass
shouldn’t have been treat- became aware of the mat- cut a 13-year-old girl.
ed this way.” ter,” Bratton said.q “Anytime that you have
multiple shootings against
New York: American citizens on a
highway, that’s terrorism,”
$15 minimum wage approved for fast-food workers Department of Public Safe-
ty Director Frank Milstead
DEEPTI HAJELA tion setting a $15 minimum ery single governor in every So far, Los Angeles, Seat- said. “It’s just a matter of
DAVID KLEPPER for all industries, a promise single state in America look tle, San Francisco and the time before there is a trag-
Associated Press that comes as more and at themselves,” he said at California cities of Oakland edy.”
NEW YORK (AP) — New more cities around the the rally in New York City. and Berkeley have ap- Authorities also were study-
York state will gradually country move toward a “It’s going to have a pro- proved phased-in increas- ing a tractor-trailer rig at
raise the minimum wage $15 minimum wage. found impact.” es that eventually will take a location near I-10 and
for fast-food workers to $15 “Every working man and He said he and President their minimum wage to $15 a car whose window was
an hour — the first time any woman in the state of Barack Obama remain an hour, or about $31,200 severely cracked Thursday,
state has set the minimum New York deserves $15 an committed to raising the a year. but those results weren’t
that high. hour,” the governor told federal minimum wage to New York’s increase was conclusive, Garcia said.
Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s the enthusiastic crowd of $12 an hour. recommended by an The shootings have rattled
administration formally union members. “We’re The wage increase for fast- unelected Wage Board nerves and heightened
approved the increase not going to stop until we food workers in New York created by Cuomo — a fears among drivers that
Thursday, a move the get it done.” will be phased in over three tactic that allowed the a possible serial shooter
Democratic governor an- Biden predicted the $15 years in New York City and governor to circumvent could hit them next. Elec-
nounced at a labor rally wage for fast-food work- over six years elsewhere in the Legislature, where the tronic freeway billboards
with Vice President Joe ers would galvanize efforts the state. It will apply to Republican-led Senate has urge people to call a hot-
Biden. Cuomo said he across the country. some 200,000 employees blocked big increases in line with any tips. Some are
would work to pass legisla- “You’re going to make ev- at large chain restaurants. recent years.q commuting on city streets
instead.q
