James Blake NYPD Arrest, Attack [VIDEO] Instagram to Blame for Tennis Star Mistaken Identity?

On Sept. 9, 2015, a plain-clothed NYPD officer wrongfully arrested former tennis player, James Blake. The police officer was allegedly looking for the subject of a credit card fraud and physically attacked Blake, mistaking him as the subject, all of which was caught on security camera video. Now new reports are suggesting the case of this mistaken identity can be blamed on Instagram and social media.

"I was standing there doing nothing-not running, not resisting, in fact smiling," Blake said last week during an appearance on Good Morning America.

According to the USA Today, Blake added that the officer "picked me up and bodyslammed me and put me on the ground and told me to turn over and shut my mouth, and put the cuffs on me."

According to The New York Post, apparently Instagram is to blame, as a photo posted on the social media platform misled the police to wrongfully arrest James Blake, even though the suspect in the photo isn't who they were looking for either.

The photo was of a fraud "suspect" who supposedly looked similar to James Blake named Sean Satha, a respected Australian businessman, who had nothing to do with the alleged credit card fraud either.

Sean Satha's photo was apparently used by a group of thieves as a disguise for their online account with the courier app GoButler and they posted the photo on Instagram. The NYPD police officers who were trying to catch the credit card scammers were given Satha's photo while setting up an operation outside the Grand Hyatt in Midtown at noon Wednesday. A GoButler carrier pointed out Blake to Officer James Frascatore, who clearly thought Blake looked similar to Satha, and violently arrested Blake.

"I've watched the video and I think it's outrageous," Satha said. "James Blake was unjustly assaulted and intimidated during the botched arrest."

But even after it became clear that Blake was innocent, police circulated Satha's photo, and claimed he was a suspect.

Satha was identified this week as a former UBS and Deutsche Bank financier and engineer who runs a well-known Bondi Beach sunglass business. According to law enforcement, he is not a part of the scam.

"I don't appreciate being referred to as a suspect or thief in any capacity," Satha said. "I feel like I have been a victim of identity theft - by the media and the police.

"I'm told that they grabbed the picture from my brother's Instagram account. My name is clearly tagged at the bottom of the photo - so I reckon this whole mess could have been avoided if someone had spent 10 minutes doing some research on Google prior to the manhunt."

According to Bleacher Report, Police Commissioner Bill Bratton refused to answer reporters' questions Tuesday regarding the confusion involving Satha. And instead the President of the NYPD Union released a statement addressing how NYPD officers are being framed by the media:

The NYPD union just sent this email to reporters telling us we aren't "qualified to judge the actions of police" pic.twitter.com/SqmsJNxCsk

— Polly Mosendz (@polly) September 15, 2015