In a real plot twist, the New York officer who wrongfully identified and detained black tennis star James Blake in 2015 is now suing him for defamation. Huffington Post reports that the officer, James Frascatore, claims Blake depicted him as an "out of control and corrupt officer" in the book Ways of Grace which details the incident.

Frascatore was one of the cops who tackled and detained Blake outside of a hotel in Manhattan in 2015 after law enforcement mistook him for a suspect in a credit card fraud ring. The officers let him go after they realized they had identified the wrong man, and Blake was left with cuts and bruises as a result. Frascatore was suspended and then placed on desk duty.

Frascatore said Blake's book, which was released in June, made him very upset and angry. The lawsuit states that "Blake’s defamatory statements about Officer Frascatore were circulated to millions of readers and viewers in print, online, and through mobile and social media.”

The city of New York, the New York Police Department, the director of the department's civilian complaint review board and the book's publishing house HarperCollins are also named as defendants in the lawsuit. Frascatore claims in his lawsuit that the defendants paint him as “a racist and a goon.”

The suit says that “this characterization could not be farther from the truth, this public perception has not only led to his family fleeing their home in fear as a result of public threats to their safety, it has ruined a good man’s career, name and reputation.”

At the time of the incident, Blake told the New York Daily News that the officers racially profiled him and there was absolutely no need for that kind of force.

“In my mind there’s probably a race factor involved, but no matter what, there’s no reason for anybody to do that to anybody,” Blake, said. “You’d think they could say, ‘Hey, we want to talk to you. We are looking into something.’ I was just standing there. I wasn’t running. It’s not even close [to being OK]. It’s blatantly unnecessary.”

In a recent interview with the New York Post, Frascatore said he made the right call by tackling Blake at the time of the incident.

“I have a family to go home to. I’m on a crowded sidewalk, with a possibly armed suspect in the middle of 42nd Street,’’ Frascatore said. “You have to take control of the situation. I can’t just be pulling out my gun.”

Frascatore is suing for $75,000 in damages for emotional distress and slander. As of Saturday afternoon, Blake and HarperCollins had not released a statement.