Here Are a Bunch of Other Recent Miami PD Brutality Cases

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…

Miami Mayor Wants Faster Police Misconduct Punishments in Wake of Head-Kicking Video

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.

Miami Cell Phone Company Agrees to Fix Huge Data-Leakage Scandal

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…

Miami Cop Suspended After Kicking Man in Head on Video

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.

CIA Used Herald Reporter as “Propaganda Outlet” in ’60s, Documents Show

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)…

Marco Rubio Just Admitted the GOP Tax Cut He Voted for Is Total BS

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.”

Why Did Miami’s Prosecutor Clear Guard Now Facing Federal Charges in Fatal Juvenile Beating?

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.

Five Insane Cults Tied to South Florida

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…

State Closes Midtown Miami School Tied to NXIVM “Sex Cult” Leader

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.

Guards Say They Were Forced to Stay in Flooded, Dangerous Miami Prison During Irma

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.

Opa-locka Cop Claims He Had a Heart Attack Because Black Officer Was Promoted Over Him

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.

Enjoy This Video of Key West Residents Cursing at Trump’s Motorcade

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!

Gov. Rick Scott Might Have Blatantly Broken Federal Anti-Corruption Rules

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.