After an hourlong meeting on Monday with Mayor Bill de Blasio and Police Commissioner William J. Bratton, the retired tennis star James Blake said that the mayor had been broadly sympathetic to his calls for greater police accountability.
Speaking at a news conference outside City Hall, Mr. Blake said of the mayor, “What he said that made me feel good was that in his heart he was on the same page as us” on issues of reducing crime and instituting stronger accountability for officers.
Mr. Blake said he still thought often about being dragged to the ground by a plainclothes officer who mistook him for a suspect on a Midtown Manhattan sidewalk on Sept.