The officer who tackled tennis star James Blake 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.
In June 2012, Frascatore pulled over Leroy Cline for a busted tailight,
WYNC reported. Frascatore asked for Cline’s ID without saying why he was being pulled over, Cline said.
“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.”
Frascatore had a different story about what happened: he claimed Cline attacked him and bit his fist.
Frascatore is suing Cline, claiming he sustained "permanent" injuries from Cline's car while trying to arrest him.
The officer "became sick, sore, lame and disabled…(and) has been permanently injured," the lawsuit claimed.
The complaint was filed in June, just three months before he allegedly body-slammed Blake to the ground without identifying himself as a cop outside a Manhattan hotel.
In January 2013, Frascatore and two other officers arrested Warren Diggs and pinned him to the ground for riding his bike on the sidewalk, Diggs’ girlfriend said.
Diggs was hit in the head, causing him to be concussed, and officers kicked and punched him as he lay face down on the ground, according to a complaint filed in April.
Diggs was charged with pot possession and resisting arrest and his girlfriend, Nafeesah Hines, was arrested for tampering with evidence. Their criminal case was later dismissed.
Diggs alleged Frascatore and the other cops lied under oath about what happened. Hines sued the city for false arrest and settled her case out of court for $22,500.
In May 2013, Frascatore was one of four officers who followed a Queens man into a bodega, where a cop
pepper-sprayed him repeatedly while he was down, according to a lawsuit and surveillance footage obtained by the Daily News.
Stefon Luckey said the cops began yelling racial epithets at him outside a St. Albans bodega in May 2013. Luckey said he entered the deli, where he was punched and pepper-sprayed by an unspecified officer.
Two of the officers had walked out of the deli as the brutality continued, video shows.
Luckey was thrown in cuffs and was later released without charges.
The officers submitted "false statements" about what happened "in an effort to cover up and/or conceal their unlawful conduct," the complaint alleges.
In June 2013, Frascatore and five unnamed cops "viciously and violently" beat up a Queens man during an arrest without a warrant, according to a complaint filed in June 2014.
Samuel Pringle said he was hit from behind and thrown to the ground before he was pinned down by the officers' knees.
Since Blake’s arrest Wednesday, Frascatore has been placed on modified duty and has had his gun and badge yanked as police investigate.
NYPD Commissioner Bill Bratton raised concerns about Blake’s takedown and arrest Thursday, noting Frascatore did not file a report about the bogus arrest.
The Civilian Complaint Review Board has opened an investigation into Frascatore, who has previously had five complaints lodged against him, according to court documents.
Attorneys for Frascatore were not immediately available for comment.
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