Although the Miami-Dade Police Department is the eighth-largest law enforcement agency in the country, a report issued earlier this month warns that the county’s cops are woefully underprepared to deal with transgender people.
Ahead of this year’s Memorial Day weekend, Miami Beach recruited local artists of color to put together a series of exhibits specifically for black visitors in an attempt to reframe the Memorial Day narrative.
For the past several years, Miami Beach Police have been using automatic license-plate readers to scan each and every car traveling to the city over Memorial Day weekend — an effort known to cause bumper-to-bumper traffic on the MacArthur and Julia Tuttle Causeways.
Around 7 p.m. last December 10, Miami resident Oscar Julien-Riou — a 63-year-old Army veteran, retired nurse, and minister — was sitting in Liberty City’s Alonzo Kelly Park alone with his phone in his hand. He lived across the street. He says he was minding his own business and filming as he recorded notes about his life on his cell phone when a Miami Police cruiser rolled up.
When workers at the federal courthouse in Miami received a letter in the mail on May 10 saying there were explosives in the building, the note warned them the threat was serious.
The Stonehenge rock was far from the first insane artifact that’s turned up in South Florida. In fact, the area’s unique combination of retirees, wayward travelers, and outright criminals have turned Miami into a haven for art thieves and black-market artifact deals
Today an off-duty Miami cop shot someone. Miami-Dade Police announced that a still-unnamed City of Miami officer got into an argument with a man in North Miami-Dade early this morning and wound up shooting the guy. According to NBC 6 South Florida (WTVJ), the cop shot his ex-girlfriend’s new boyfriend.
It turns out the accidental shooter is a Miami Police officer. And he isn’t just any cop: A department spokeswoman confirmed to New Times this afternoon that the officer is Mario Gonzalez, a police firearms instructor.
William Thompson still has screenshots of the route, plus trip IDs, photos snapped at various pit stops along the way, a thank you message from the customer, and a payment from Uber. The price tag on just one of the receipts, for the stretch between Connecticut and Florida: $2,283.93.
Earlier this week, a salacious video started making the rounds on social media. In it, a woman books it down a Miami Beach street, tailed by a man with nary a thread of clothing on his body. “Stop her!” he yells. “She’s got my Rolex!”
In the fall of 1993, on the island of Palm Beach, future U.S. president Donald J. Trump became friends with Leslie Greyling, an illegal immigrant and accused con artist who is a fugitive from the law. Back then, the local sections of the Palm Beach Post and Palm Beach Daily…
Another black teen has come forward accusing a different BSO cop of slamming him to the ground. The mother of 17-year-old Jordan Bennett went public Monday with a video showing a deputy holding the teen to the floor of the cafeteria at Blanche Ely High School in Pompano Beach.
Kodak Black’s Fort Lauderdale-based lawyer, Bradford Cohen, is crying foul — not only because his client was arrested once again, but because one of the cops involved took an unauthorized photo of Black in handcuffs and leaked it to WSVN Channel 7 News.
GEO, a Boca Raton-based company now considered the largest private, for-profit prison firm in America, held an annual shareholder meeting today in New York City — and a majority of shareholders passed a resolution demanding that GEO better report human-rights policies and violations to investors.
Civil rights activists have been begging Miami-Dade State Attorney Katherine Fernandez Rundle for weeks to arrest county police officer Alejandro Giraldo, who was filmed brutally arresting Dyma Loving, a woman who was simply trying to report that a man had threatened to murder her with a shotgun.
The latest viral craze to get some fools in trouble with their bosses is the #FeelingCute challenge — a meme wherein users post that they’re #FeelingCute and about to do something wild at their jobs. For at least four Florida prison guards, “feeling cute” apparently meant committing acts of hypothetical violence or abusing inmates.
Former Palm Beach Gardens Police Officer Nouman Raja, the first Florida cop convicted for an on-duty killing since 1989, was sentenced today to 25 years in prison for the death of Corey Jones. Raja fatally shot Jones, a 31-year-old local drummer, on the side of I-95 in October 2015.
Yesterday, MPD Officer Mario Figueroa was acquitted of assault charges after he was filmed in May 2018 taking a running, football-punt-style kick at a handcuffed suspect’s head. MPD’s Fraternal Order of Police astoundingly chimed in on Twitter to say that Figueroa actually ought to be commended for his actions.
Dyma Loving has already sued MDPD and the officers involved, but some local activists say that’s not enough. Two activist groups will march to Miami-Dade County State Attorney Katherine Fernandez Rundle’s office today to deliver more than 50,000 petition signatures demanding the cop be charged with assault.
When Miami-Dade Mayor Carlos Gimenez announced in January 2017 that the county would no longer be an unofficial “sanctuary” for undocumented immigrants, activists worried the policy would deter some victims from reporting crimes. Miami-Dade Police Director Juan Perez assured residents they shouldn’t be afraid to call 911 or cooperate with officers.
Lately, Donald Trump fans have enjoyed attacking left-leaning Americans. Last year, for instance, Miami-area resident Cesar Sayoc sent pipe bombs to prominent liberals across the nation and went to jail. Today another South Florida man was arrested, this time for allegedly threatening to kill four Democrats.
The Broward County Sheriff’s Office says it is investigating a situation where deputies pepper-sprayed, punched, and slammed into the ground at least two teens Thursday afternoon near J.P. Taravella High School. Videos of the incident began rapidly spreading on social media Thursday night.
