Patrolmen’s Benevolent Association President Patrick J. Lynch last week fired an angry broadside at “arm-chair judges” in the news media who called for the firing of Police Officer James Frascatore for his tackle and mistaken arrest of retired tennis star James Blake.
The Sergeant’s Benevolent Association and a noted criminologist from John Jay College of Criminal Justice agreed with the PBA that critics should wait for the NYPD to finish investigating the incident before coming to conclusions about the apprehension of Mr. Blake as he stood outside the Grand Hyatt Hotel next to Grand Central Station.
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