A plainclothes NYPD officer who tackled a tennis star on the sidewalk near Grand Central Station in 2015, mistakenly believing he was part of a credit-card-theft ring, reportedly had five vacation days taken away, a penalty the man he jumped said was “indicative of a broken disciplinary system.”
The Civilian Complaint Review Board had recommended that Officer James Frascatore lose 10 days for slamming James Blake to the ground without warning as he stood outside the Grand Hyatt Hotel waiting for transportation to the National Tennis Center in Queens.
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