Surveillance footage released by the New York Police Department shows officer James Frascatore ambushing US tennis star James Blake in what appears to be a startling, illegal arrest. Frascatore has a history of using excessive-force and has been sued four times.
He’s a repeat offender.
The hard-charging NYPD officer who body-slammed tennis star James Blake outside a Manhattan hotel has been sued four times for roughing up suspects during arrests, documents show.
Officer James Frascatore, on the force for four years, is a defendant in four ongoing civil cases that charge he and other officers used excessive force during false arrests.
The 38-year-old Long Island resident has also had at least five complaints lodged against him with the Civilian Complaint Review Board.
And he has a date with Internal Affairs investigators next week about Wednesday’s altercation with Blake — an incident that resulted in him being reassigned to desk duty and having his gun and shield lifted.
“You only get one bite at the apple at things like this, so they want to get all the facts before they interview him,” the source said.
The NYPD is aware of only three CCRB investigations against Frascatore, the source said. And only one of them was partially substantiated — a case in which he failed to identify himself properly and for which he was given a stern talking-to.
“There are cops with a lot worse records than Frascatore on the streets,” the source said.
Based on his record, firing Frascatore “would be like firing someone because he was arrested for robbery three times, even though he was found not guilty three times,” the source said.
Frascatore was hit with his first lawsuit in 2013 for an incident that allegedly happened a year earlier when he pulled over Leroy Cline in Queens and demanded his identification but would not say why.
“He completely ignored me and said, ‘License, registration,’” Cline told WNYC last year. “I said, ‘Officer, what am I being pulled over for?’”
“That’s when he opened my car door and gave me three straight shots to the mouth.”
He’s obviously lingering in a doorway.
” … for which he was given a stern talking-to.” ———- article
There ya go!! He got hisself a stern talking! Woo hoo!!
Once he loses his copfuk job I hope someone kicks the everliving shit out of him.
WTF?
Exactly what were “charges” going to be before it was discovered this was someone “famous?”
What? Is this “frisky” Frascatore descended from the Roman soldier who whipped a half gallon of blood out of Jesus? Someone look into where he attended high school, and start making inquiries about him to his classmates. Odds are high they’ll remember him as a hallway tough. And that’s why he became a so-called “law enforcer,” so he could assault people for the sadistic thrill of it, and be protected by his pals and by the system. Bullies know this police occupation is a power occupation, that’s why so many policemen have hopelessly rotten personalities. That is the fact of the matter, as countless tens of thousands of news items in online newspaper archives going back over 160 years indisputably demonstrate. The punishment should always fit the crime. Let Frascatore be savagely beaten by twenty convicts in the New York prison system. Toss him in for just one minute. One other thing—will any psychiatrist or psychologist in New York state say this Frascatore has any sort of “mental illness?” Absolutely not—they know their licenses would be pulled if they say any policeman has a “mental illness,” yet we are told “mental illness is like any other illness.” Since police are exempt from this (socially mythological) mental illness, they must never have any real health issues, so why should they have any medical benefits (especially since they enjoy injuring the public)?
Cops need to be held personally liable for what they do that is not warranted under law or policy.
Personally means as in a lawsuit where they pay the damages instead of some city’s insurance company or taxpayers.
And those damages should be declared egregious damages which would exempt them from bankruptcy dismissal.
Let the cops carry their own individual professional liability insurance or pay out of their own pocket, the same way I have to as a result of my own self employment as a business or any doctor or other professional does.
I agree with anon above.
They’re having Support Our Police rallies all over our area. People want to make food for them, hold prayer vigils for them, speechify on their behalf. Sounds great.
I want to see that some police department–any police department–has organized a Let’s Remember All the Poor Innocent Bastards We’ve Killed and Maimed event. That would be very cool, show that they are aware the law applies equally in society, would be a tacit acknowledgement they too are human and mistakes, sometimes grievous, are made by the police.
That’s why there is absolutely no fucking chance it will ever happen.
Thanks for playing.