Legal Opinion

Frascatore v. Blake

District Court, S.D. Illinois

Decided September 25, 2018No. 1:17-cv-7502-GHWPublishedCited by 8 opinions

1Opinion of the Court

GREGORY H. WOODS, United States District Judge

On September 9, 2015, Officer James Frascatore was sent to the Grant Hyatt Hotel in New York City, tasked to take the potentially dangerous ringleader of a criminal conspiracy into custody. He was provided the criminal's photograph. The picture "portrayed a man bearing a striking resemblance to the way Defendant Blake appeared that day." They were both African-American. When he saw a man matching the description and picture of the ringleader, Frascatore tackled and detained the man. But Frascatore and fellow officers quickly determined that the…

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