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New York (AFP) - Swiss NBA player Thabo Sefolosha told a New York court Thursday that police were "looking for a reason" to arrest him, on the third day of his trial for resisting arrest and disorderly conduct.
Lawyers for the Atlanta Hawks forward maintain that New York police officers who arrested him earlier this year outside a Manhattan nightclub handled him so aggressively that they broke his leg.
Lawyers for the player and Sefolosha, who is black, have cast the incident as another case of overzealous police handling of black men in the United States.