In 1988, the American Civil Liberties Union teamed up with more than 5,000 homeless people and sued the City of Miami to stop police from rampantly arresting them on loitering charges. The city wound up settling a decade later, and the result — the Pottinger Agreement, named for lead plaintiff…
Fresh off a playoff beatdown by the Philadelphia 76ers, plenty of salty Miami Heat fans laughed their way through a report in the Ringer this morning that exploded a tactical weapon wielded by Philly’s front office. The story documents how the Sixers’ president of basketball operations, Bryan Colangelo, has almost certainly kept at least five secret Twitter accounts. On them, he has bashed his team’s biggest stars, divulged secret medical information, and, most important, fiercely defended the weirdly gigantic collars he wears.
Another day, another public official wishing death and dismemberment upon the teenage survivors of the worst school shooting in South Florida history. After a North Miami Beach cop was suspended for calling the Parkland massacre survivors “crisis actors,” and a member of the Parkland Education Advisory Board was outed for…
It’s been only a month since the Miami Heat played its last game of the season — a 104-91 loss to the Philadelphia 76ers in Game 5 of the first round of the playoffs — but it feels like ages. Because the Heat has no picks in next month’s NBA Draft and little to no money to spend in free agency this summer, it seems fans are in for a ho-hum, eventless off-season.
By the time Demarcus Semer’s headlights flashed through the living-room window of the Fort Pierce house, the rest of the guys were already inside. Most nights, the group of childhood friends got together to rap and play videogames at 20-year-old Rhashaad Owens’ North 19th Street home, a three-bedroom ranch with…
Riding dirt bikes and ATVs on the highway is not a great idea, especially if you’re popping wheelies on busy Florida roads where drivers weave in and out of traffic and are regularly involved in accidents.
After another year of fear-mongering news reports and an overwhelming police presence at Memorial Day festivities in South Beach, the worst gun-related incident of the weekend came after a false rumor of gunfire. A brief panic erupted around 8:15 last night near Ocean Drive, sparking a minor stampede that left one person injured.
The mansion’s owners, with an eye on Little Haiti’s impending development, are looking to sell the haunted property.
When the clouds finally cleared Sunday afternoon, three things became apparent: Many brightly colored swimsuits exist, the air portion of the Air & Sea Show is very loud, and police officers were everywhere.
Florida gubernatorial candidate, Rick Scott ally, and self-proclaimed “Proud NRA sellout” Adam Putnam will pretty much take campaign money from anyone. Case in point: He scheduled a fundraiser last week with a man who was previously videotaped repeatedly shooting two dogs. Putnam responded by saying that the donation from said dog-shooter was…
Florida voters legalized medical marijuana in 2016. But that referendum directed the Florida Legislature — a group dominated by fear-mongering, fun-hating conservatives — to write most of the rules and regulations for medical pot. After a gigantic political battle, the Legislature in 2017 finalized a list of ways that patients could legally ingest medicinal pot…
Residents have already made a whole heck of a lot of noise about Miami Beach Police’s decision to reduce the Julia Tuttle and MacArthur Causeways to a single lane each so they can log and scan every visitor’s license plate to check for active warrants. Though MBPD has been using this tactic since at least 2012, civil liberties activists worry…
Six days before hurricane season even begins, we already have our first named storm of the year. And it will absolutely drench South Florida just in time for a three-day weekend. Subtropical Storm Alberto officially formed around 10 a.m. just off the Yucatán Peninsula in the northwestern Caribbean Sea, which means the system has picked up a noticeable rotation and kicked up winds topping 39 mph.
Early this morning, Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School survivors and #NeverAgain activists gathered in the dark parking lot of a Coral Springs Publix and began tracing bodies on the asphalt in chalk. When they were finished well before dawn, they’d drawn the outlines of 17 victims and an ominous twist on Publix’s famous slogan: “Where shooting is a pleasure.”
Arkup is a new design firm that specializes in solar-powered, sustainable, “luxury livable yachts,” or “arks.”
Remember when Florida activist Cara Jennings confronted Florida governor and Arctic-dwelling trickster demon Rick Scott inside a Starbucks, called him “an asshole” to his face, and asked how he could live with himself after he refused to expand Medicaid in Florida and give more people health care?
Threats against public officials are, unfortunately, common in South Florida. But it’s rare they require an ongoing police presence. Yet earlier this week, local political blogger Al Crespo verified anonymous tips that Miami Police officers have been stationed in front of the homes of Mayor Francis Suarez and Commissioner Ken Russell.
Miami-Dade State Attorney Katherine Fernandez Rundle, who in 25 years has never charged a police officer for killing someone while on duty, has quietly cleared another cop for killing an unarmed man.
In 2009, California artist Scott Gairdner made the “Sex Offender Shuffle,” a viral video parodying Miami-Dade’s treatment of sex offenders. With a catchy beat and ’80s-style cinematography, the four-minute spoof of the 1985 Chicago Bears’ “Super Bowl Shuffle” mocked the way sex offenders are shuffled from one location to another under the guise of public safety.
There’s already plenty of depression to go around in South Florida before this Memorial Day. Traffic is gonna be a ludicrous nightmare thanks to Miami Beach’s totally not-race-related crackdown on Urban Beach Week. The Marlins belong in the trash can, and the Dolphins will probably be even worse. And now, a tropical depression might just roll over the peninsula for the holiday weekend.
“They shot me for nothing, man!” a man yells moments after Miami-Dade Police opened fire on him in Opa-locka this past Wednesday. In a Facebook video filmed just after the 1:15 p.m. incident at the Glorieta Gardens Apartments, the man insists he did nothing to cause officers to shoot him.
Every day, dozens of elderly people and parents with small children are forced to arrive before the sun rises at the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s office in Miramar, where they stand for hours in long lines without shelter from the sun or rain. And there isn’t enough parking for everyone forced to arrive for ICE check-ins…
