Even before yesterday’s wrenching Senate hearings, you probably already knew Sen. Marco Rubio is a simpering hog with horrible opinions about the sexual assault allegations against U.S. Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh. Yet hearing Rubio actually voice those awful thoughts still sucks.
It’s been ten days since Nusret “Salt Bae” Gökçe was caught serving a bunch of ridiculous luxury steak to Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro. Seriously: Screw Salt Bae for doing that while Venezuelans are starving. But also, ten days is way too long to care about him. He is famous for throwing salt on meat while looking like a douchebag…
Miami-Dade County’s proposed extension of the Dolphin Expressway has seemed to unite both Republicans and Democrats in anger: Everyone, from local environmentalists to Sen. Marco Rubio, has slammed the idea. In Miami-Dade, a county where public transportation options are short and traffic wait times are long, activists have warned…
If a City of Miami Police officer suspects you have drugs in your car, you’d better believe you’ll get arrested. Sure, prosecutors might eventually drop your case or send you to a pretrial diversion program, but there’s also a good shot you could end up in jail. Either way, the process is humiliating and expensive.
Under Miami Police Department rules, cops aren’t allowed to post selfies on Instagram showing them grinning next to detained, handcuffed people. The rule might seem self-evident, but in January, New Times caught Miami Police Captain Javier Ortiz — the city’s former police union chief known for insulting dead children…
The proposed Magic City Innovation District would instantly transform Little Haiti from an area of Caribbean immigrants and locally owned shops into a glitzy, landlocked version of Miami Beach. Though Little Haiti is already gentrifying at a rapid clip, locals worry the development would guarantee that the last stretch of affordable housing in the area would vanish.
Wynwood is Miami’s least remarkable neighborhood. South Beach is one of the world’s most iconic art deco cityscapes. Little Havana is a melting pot of Cuban and American traditions that exists nowhere else on Earth. Wynwood has street art, endless EDM, and $17 cocktails. You could pluck any Wynwood bar, pop it into Brooklyn or Seattle or Portland or Los Angeles or Austin, and nobody would notice a thing.
Most Americans outside the Midwest have probably never seen an Indianapolis Indians game. The Indians are the Pittsburgh Pirates’ Minor League Baseball affiliate — they play in the AAA International League in a stadium that holds a maximum of about 14,000 people. The single most exciting thing about attending…
Pro tip: If you want to work in a job where you arrest people for doing cocaine, don’t do cocaine yourself. That advice might seem obvious, but the Miami Springs Police Department says former cop Christopher Dweck failed to follow those wise words. Now, after failing a test for coke and amphetamines and getting fired, he is suing the department in federal court.
CNN aired some pretty depressing footage from a Miami-based Brett Kavanaugh “focus group” last week. The network claimed to have found five typical Latina voters who all believe that Supreme Court nominee and very normal carpool dad Kavanaugh did not try to rape Christine Blasey Ford when the two were in high school. All five women appeared to live in the feminist version of the Sunken Place.
Miami-Dade kinda decriminalized marijuana in 2015. That year, the county commission gave police officers the option of issuing civil tickets, like traffic fines, instead of arresting people caught with 20 grams of pot or less. The measure was hailed as a massive win for justice-reform advocates, who rightfully argue that pot possession is harmless and not worth jail time.
It seems pretty common that Miami-area cops mishandle evidence and critical police property. Mere days after a group of Miami Police Department civilian employees were fired for driving away with property stored in evidence lockers, a City of Miami Beach worker, Jason Bruder, was hit today with nine misdemeanor charges…
In 2014, Miami-Dade County prosecutors said Rickey L. Davis was a killer. State Attorney Katherine Fernandez Rundle’s office, working with Miami-Dade Police, announced it had determined Davis had strangled then-26-year-old Joycelean Burrows to death in Liberty City in 1986. Reporters blasted Davis’ mugshot all over the press and claimed new DNA evidence had solved the case after nearly 30 years.
Bryan Deneumostier helped run the website StraightBoyz for roughly four years.
Florida’s Republican gubernatorial candidate Ron DeSantis not only has said and done racist things but also continues getting caught hanging out with racist nutjobs. New Times in April disclosed that he spoke at a virulently anti-Muslim event with Steve Bannon and Milo Yiannopoulos in 2017. Then the Florida Center for Investigative Reporting found that DeSantis appeared…
No matter your thoughts on the political and economic crises in Venezuela, the country’s president, Nicolás Maduro, definitely should not be seen snacking on luxury meats while his constituents starve. This is something of a recurring problem for Maduro.
Just before the November 2016 election, a federal judge forced the Florida Division of Elections to allow rejected absentee-ballot voters to correct mistakes on their mailed-in forms. Yet somehow even more ballots ended up being rejected in that election than in 2012 — and younger voters and voters of color, who overwhelmingly lean to the left, had their ballots invalidated at a far higher rate.
Clarens Desrouleaux spent five years in prison for burglary before he was deported to Haiti last year. The problem is that he never stole anything from anyone. Desrouleaux was, in fact, a victim of a heinous scheme by former Biscayne Park Police Chief Raimundo Atesiano in which he told his cops to frame black residents for burglaries in order to make his department seem competent.
Bud Conlin, a heavily bearded former high-school principal with a grandfatherly demeanor, has been showing up at the Krome Processing Center once a week since 2014. He’s the co-coordinator of Friends of Miami-Dade Detainees, a nonprofit that visits people at the Immigration and Customs Enforcement detention center, buys them books, and puts money…
After working as a TV reporter in Los Angeles, Michele Gillen in 1997 joined WFOR, Miami’s CBS affiliate. Since then, she’s been nominated for 46 regional Emmys and won 25. But she says her career as an investigative reporter suffered thanks to a culture of sexism, bullying, and harassment at the network.
Confronted earlier this year by investigators from the Miami-Dade Commission on Ethics & Public Trust, Miami Commissioner Joe Carollo admitted he showed up outside a valet parking lot for the Little Havana nightclub Ball & Chain around 1 o’clock on early morning in February. But he denied claims he whipped…
It takes a special sort of asshole to pin a bunch of crimes on an innocent 16-year-old kid just for being black. But former Biscayne Park Police Chief Raimundo Atesiano now admits he’s exactly that sort of asshole: Federal prosecutors announced today that Atesiano pleaded guilty to framing a Biscayne Park teenager…
