Miami Beach promotes itself as a haven for progressives, LGBTQ people, and open-minded folks from all over the globe, yet in its recent push to crack down on crime, the city has alarmed civil liberties groups. The city and police department have recently praised the local group Crime Prevention and Awareness, a collection of vigilantes fighting to increase bond amounts for criminals.
Sen. Marco Rubio is very bad at standing in front of human voters and saying words. It’s his biggest weakness. He sweated his career away when he responded to the 2013 State of the Union address, flunked out of the 2016 Republican presidential primary for robotically repeating the same phrases…
People who deliver pizza in Miami live in the most disparate city in America. Study after study shows that Miami-Dade County is arguably the cruelest metro area for the working poor, a place with next to zero affordable homes. The city’s lack of middle-class job opportunities means residents make a median income of $43,000 per year…
After the school massacre in Parkland two weeks ago, Mark Cowan, a grizzled man in Fort Wayne, Indiana, began standing outside the town’s North Side High School. With a handgun. And an AR-15 in his car.
Broward County Sheriff Scott Israel has clearly found one person to blame for Nikolas Cruz’s shooting rampage: Scot Peterson, the armed BSO deputy who, Israel says, failed to rush into the school and “kill the killer” while Cruz was murdering students and teachers. Israel held a stunning news conference last week in which he said Peterson “never went in” to the school and stood outside for four minutes as the massacre occurred.
Earlier this month, Miami-Dade County Police Director Juan Perez stood in front of the county commission and with a straight face insisted increased civilian oversight of his police department is “not needed.”
U.S. Congressman Matt Gaetz tried like hell this week to defend the National Rifle Association from scorn after Nikolas Cruz used to an AR-15 rifle to kill 17 people at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School.
Immigrants are forced to line up before the crack of dawn for scheduled meetings at Miami’s Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) field office, which actually sits in Miramar in neighboring Broward County. New Times reported this month that immigrants there were forced to stand in the heat and rain for hours without…
Yeah, uh, definitely do not do what the Miami-Dade County Public Schools student did in the photo above. A mere week after Nikolas Cruz killed 17 students and teachers at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School, the kid pictured here appears to have posed with an assault-style rifle and captioned the image “Here’s a fat FUCK YOU to everyone.”
Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School had an armed and trained police guard at the school the day Nikolas Cruz killed 17 students and teachers. People have since questioned why the guard wasn’t able to stop Cruz from committing the massacre. Broward County Sheriff Scott Israel solved that mystery minutes ago: BSO School Resource Officer Scot Peterson “never went in” to confront Cruz as the shooting occurred.
Everyone knows Florida is run by rubes, fools, and con men. But most people likely weren’t aware just how stupid the state’s legislators really are here on a daily basis until this week, when a brutal Florida school massacre forced national reporters to ask the state’s Republican intelligentsia how they feel…
Are you, perhaps, a Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School student who is sad or upset that a disturbed 19-year-old was able to buy an AR-15 rifle legally and kill 17 of your friends and teachers last week?
There’s a reason right-wing groups seem to be terrified of the Parkland shooting survivors. The brave kids who lived through the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High massacre have begun a nationwide #NeverAgain protest movement: As shooting survivors speak today in the Florida Capitol, thousands of middle- and high-school students across the state are walking out to demand gun-control laws for the second day in a row.
Say what you want about Tampa-area state Rep. Ross Spano, but he truly cares about the dangers our children face in the 21st Century. Just six days after Florida was forced to live through one of the most horrific school shootings in American history, in large part because a…
Perhaps no piece of news illustrates how depraved and broken the Florida political system is than what just went down in Tallahassee. Just six days after Nikolas Cruz used an AR-15 assault rifle to murder 14 teenagers and three adults at a high school in Parkland, the Florida House of Representatives voted down a measure to ban purchases of assault rifles and large-capacity magazines statewide.
A whole lot of pro-gun activists, conspiracy theorists, and general piles of garbage want to pretend these children don’t exist. But today, hundreds of South Florida students have walked out of class and are marching in the streets to demand increased gun-safety laws after 17 students and teachers were shot to death last week at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland.
A federal grand jury filed charges against 13 Russian nationals Friday for allegedly stealing identities, wiring money overseas, and staging a small series of flash mobs to help tip the 2016 election in Donald Trump’s favor. It’s unclear whether the social media campaign had any actual impact on voting…
After Parkland shooter Nikolas Cruz killed 17 people including three members of the Broward Teachers Union (BTU) last week, union members — led by President Anna Fusco — began marching in the streets to demand gun reform, better school mental-health counseling services, and a world where their students can learn without worrying about being murdered for no reason.
One day after 19-year-old Nikolas Cruz used an AR-15 to kill 17 people in Parkland, Florida, last Wednesday, Broward County Sheriff Scott Israel ended a news conference by proposing an idea that is sure to trouble free-speech and civil-liberty activists: He called for lawmakers in D.C. and Tallahassee to pass laws letting cops detain civilians just for posting “questionable” things on social media, including photographs of knives or vague comments about admiring serial killers, even if the people writing the posts aren’t actually threatening anyone.
Miami’s relatively small cadre of reporters spent the entire week struggling to cover a horrific school shooting in Parkland. The entire nation has been preoccupied with debates about gun control, politicians have spent most of the past few days reacting to news from Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School, and typical news “beat” reporters have been shuffled around to cover the shooting news round-the-clock since Wednesday.
The FBI today revealed the biggest news yet in the ongoing investigation of Donald Trump’s alleged ties to Russian agents: A grand jury charged 14 Russian nationals with interfering in the U.S. electoral system beginning in 2013 or earlier.
In a startling announcement, the FBI said in a news release moments ago that someone “close to Nikolas Cruz” called the bureau this past January 5 — slightly more than 30 days before this week’s massacre — and warned the federal government that Cruz owned guns and had expressed a desire to commit a school shooting.
