The City of Miami Police Department is back in the news for embarrassing reasons. This past Thursday, Facebook user Lisa Harrell posted footage of MPD Officer Mario Figueroa taking a running start and kicking a handcuffed black man, David V. Suazo, directly in the face. Miami PD claims in an arrest report…
The Miami Police Department took swift action yesterday after a bystander filmed Officer Mario Figueroa kicking a handcuffed man directly in the head. Newly appointed Chief Jorge Colina suspended the officer and promised a full investigation. But activists are still raging today, demanding to know why the other officers on the scene weren’t suspended and why Figueroa is suspended with pay.
Most cell-phone-using Americans might not be familiar with BLU, a Miami-based tech company that makes budget-level Android phones and sells them at markedly cheap prices. But the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) alleges some third-party Chinese data-collection agencies knew BLU well. The company was secretly selling phones infected with spyware…
Earlier today, the City of Miami Police Department issued an ominous statement: Chief Jorge Colina said he’d received a video of an officer clearly violating departmental policy. That cop had been relieved of duty, he reported, adding the department had sent the clip to the Miami-Dade State Attorney’s Office.
En el 2015, Raquel Perera, esposa del 17 veces ganador del Latin Grammy Alejandro Sanz, inauguró la escuela “Rainbow Cultural Garden” ubicada en en el distinguido sector de Midtown, Miami. En declaraciones a Univision, Perera alardeo acerca del singular método educativo del plantel, basado en una immersion lingüística…
Thanks to the cache of John F. Kennedy-related files the government recently released, Miamians now know about the utterly bonkers plot the feds cooked up to stage a false-flag bombing on its own populace in Miami and then blame the deaths and chaos on Fidel Castro. But according to CIA documents the Miami Herald dug up yesterday (and a few that New Times subsequently found)…
A new study from Florida International University warns that, despite strict environmental regulations protecting the unique trees, carbon emissions from cars, power companies, and other fossil-fuel-burning industries have succeeded in all but killing South Florida’s coastal mangrove population.
In the long, hot, powerless days after Hurricane Irma, Miamians grew all sorts of irate at Florida Power & Light, South Florida’s largest electricity company. After sweltering for more than a week without power, a group of sweaty Miami-area residents sued FPL last year over the widespread outages after the storm.
Russell Cooper, a 77-year-old South Florida grandfather using a walker, went viral in 2014 after Boynton Beach Police released video of him somewhat pathetically trying to rob a local PNC bank while armed with little more than a pocketknife.
Long before he voted for it, economists and policy experts warned Marco Rubio that Republicans’ giant tax cut for the wealthy would not help the American working class. Barely a week after voting for the cuts anyway, Rubio admitted those experts were right, telling the Southwest Florida News-Press he didn’t think the bill would “create dramatic economic growth.”
A federal grand jury today unsealed multiple criminal charges against Antwan Johnson, a guard accused of encouraging a group of young inmates to beat up 17-year-old Elord Revolte, a detainee at a juvenile facility. As first reported in the Miami Herald’s Pulitzer-nominated investigative series Fight Club, Revolte died August 31, 2015, from what appear to be injuries sustained during the beating.
In 2015, Spanish-language pop icon Alejandro Sanz appeared on Mexican television and in Mexican newspapers to promote his wife’s new venture: A school in Midtown Miami called the Rainbow Cultural Garden, which purported to train toddlers to speak as many as seven languages at once. In response, sisters Loreta and…
This past Friday, New Times reported that a tiny school in midtown Miami, the Rainbow Cultural Garden, has obvious ties to NXIVM (pronounced “Nexium”), an alleged sex cult run by Albany, New York’s Keith Raniere, who was arrested in March on sex-trafficking charges. Raniere’s alleged confidant, former Smallville actress Allison Mack, was arrested…
In 2015, Raquel Perera, wife of 17-time Latin Grammy winner Alejandro Sanz, debuted a school called the Rainbow Cultural Garden in posh midtown Miami. Speaking to Univision, Perera bragged that by immersing toddlers in as many as seven languages at once, the school would revolutionize teaching. Univision credited a New York guru named Keith Raniere with developing the unusual plan.
When Hurricane Andrew slammed into South Florida in 1992, the Category 5 storm destroyed much of Federal Correctional Institution (FCI) Miami, a prison that houses 1,000 inmates near Zoo Miami. So whenever serious storms have threatened since then, the feds have evacuated inmates. In 2004, the Bureau of Prisons (BOP) moved inmates out as Hurricanes Charley, Frances, Ivan, and Jeanne moved in.
When a group of Coral Springs Police officers rushed to Marjory Stoneman Douglas High this past February following reports of an active shooter, one officer says he arrived to find Broward Sheriff’s deputies taking cover behind cars and a tree — despite knowing that shooter Nikolas Cruz was still inside firing on students.
Of 193 countries on the planet, only a handful do not offer paid job leave for new parents: Suriname, Papua New Guinea, a few island nations in the Pacific — and the United States, the richest country in the world and only “developed” nation on the list. In light of how many other countries have solved this problem, fixing the issue should be easy.
Barry Berler entered an Aventura Police Department station in 2014 to ask for help locating his then-missing sister-in-law. Instead, he says, he wound up beaten, jailed, and in the hospital with serious injuries.
Michael A. Needham has been described in various news profiles over the years as “too conservative” for GOP stalwarts such as former House Speaker John Boehner, as the Republican Party’s “loathed ideological commissar,” and as “a huge asshole.” For years, Needham chaired the Heritage Action Fund, the lobbying wing of…
Is it possible to be so angry about racial politics in the workplace that you give yourself a heart attack? A lawsuit filed this week makes that case: Opa-locka Police Officer Alexander Hernandez, a self-described “white Hispanic” male, claims he was so upset upon hearing that a “black American” officer was being promoted to major over him that the news quite literally gave him a heart attack.
If you were to strip away all the trappings of President Donald Trump’s inherited wealth — the planes, the superglued combover, the spray tan — it’s not hard to imagine our nation’s president could have easily wound up filtering down to the Keys and living a life of low-rent hucksterism. He loves the Florida coastline!
Florida governor, former white-collar criminal, and U.S. Senate candidate Rick Scott seems to have tiptoed extremely, oh-so-perilously close to breaking federal anti-corruption laws earlier this year, and, depending upon which government ethics experts you contact, he might have outright broken Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) law.
