Video: Joe Carollo Makes Racist Joke About Ken Russell Looking Like Kim Jong-un
Just as the Miami City Commission was wrapping up a marathon meeting last night, Commissioner Joe Carollo turned to Commissioner Ken Russell and began chuckling.
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Homeless Sex Offenders Lose Legal Fight, Will Be Forced Out of Camp Near Hialeah
Miami-Dade does not currently have any idea what to do about to its homeless sex offender camp, an ongoing catastrophe that New Times first exposed more than a decade ago with a story about a camp underneath the Julia Tuttle Causeway. Harsh residency restrictions, which prevented sex offenders from living within thousands…
State Senator Claimed She Had a “Sick Mom” During Irma Despite Her Mom Being Dead
In a 2016 clip uploaded to YouTube, North Miami’s Democratic state Senator, Daphne Campbell, told an interviewer that her mother and father were dead. She added that her husband’s parents were also dead. In fact, she said basically everyone close to her either was deceased or lived far away.
NAACP: Miami Beach’s “Loud Car” Crackdown on Memorial Day Targets Black People
Miami Beach is loud 365 days of the year, and 366 days when it’s a leap year. Pitbull sits atop an entire subgenre of pop-rap dedicated to singing about how, at its core, club-filled, liquor-fueled, sleep-deprived Miami Beach is an extremely loud place to be.
Ex-Principal Questions Runcie’s Excuse for Misinformation About Parkland Shooter’s Disciplinary Record
After WLRN caught him spreading misinformation about Parkland shooter Nikolas Cruz’s referral to the controversial Promise disciplinary program, Broward Superintendent Robert Runcie blamed scattered record-keeping in the district. But a former assistant principal at the school where the program is housed now says Runcie is also misleading the public about how student discipline data is kept.
Rolling Loud’s Forced Move to Hard Rock Shows Blacks Aren’t Welcome Downtown
The fourth edition of Rolling Loud will kick off this Friday, but the scenery won’t be as spectacular as past years for fans forking over $300 to watch Future, Rick Ross, 21 Savage, Migos, J. Cole, and a platoon of other rap stars. The breathtaking view of Biscayne Bay that was the backdrop to last year’s Rolling Loud is being replaced with the hot asphalt of Hard Rock Stadium’s parking lot in Miami Gardens.
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Restaurant Workers Can’t Afford 99 Percent of Miami Homes, Study Shows
If you ask a random visitor to name five things Miami is famous for, “nice restaurants” is bound to make the list. There’s a reason rich people hang out here, after all. No one is laying out $3 million for a beachfront condo if they have to eat dinner at Denny’s on a Friday night.
Is Brightline Doing Enough to Keep Miami Pedestrians Safe?
Brightline, the privately funded, lemon-yellow intercity express train, has been promising higher-speed transit to South Florida tourists and locals for years. But its first few months have been underwhelming…
LeBron James Is Building a Giant Retail Store in Wynwood
LeBron James is taking his talents to Wynwood. Unfortunately for Miami Heat fans, those skills won’t include the chest-pounding, buzzer-beating, basketball-unicorn variety they’d prefer.
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Why Has Miami’s Prosecutor Let Other Cops Off the Hook for Beating Handcuffed Suspects on Video?
Miami-Dade State Attorney Katherine Fernandez Rundle, a prosecutor with a knack for upsetting criminal justice–reform advocates and civil rights lawyers, has lately taken a different tack on cops caught abusing suspects. Rundle has still never charged a cop for a fatal on-duty shooting in her 24 years in office…
Four Reasons This Is the Most Boring Moment in South Florida Sports History
Welcome to the deadest of the dead time in South Florida sports history. That’s right now. It’s happening. Well, actually nothing is happening, which is the historic part.
Miami Police Union Says Head-Kicking Cop “Used Great Restraint,” Shouldn’t Be Charged
Hours after Miami Police Officer Mario Figueroa was charged with misdemeanor assault today, the city’s police union released a doozy of a statement defending Figueroa and insisting he hadn’t broken the law or department policy.
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Head-Kicking Miami Cop Charged With Assault
Last Thursday, a clip went viral of Miami Police Officer Mario Figueroa taking a running start and kicking the head of a defenseless, handcuffed black man.
“Habitual Offender” Dog Shop Fights to Stay Open After City Passes Anti-Puppy Mill Law
Puppy Collection Inc., a Broward County pet shop with interior decor like a Barbie Dreamhouse, sells a range of “teacup puppies” — the extremely small, $1,000 dogs you might find in Paris Hilton’s handbag. The store, whose slogan is “Where celebrities buy their puppies,” says it’s a pet seller to the stars with “over 100+ celebrities” as clients.
ACLU Sues to Stop Miami Homeless Sex-Offender Camp Evictions
In 2007, New Times broke national news with a story about how a group of sex-offenders was forced to live in tents underneath the Julia Tuttle Causeway because of restrictive laws barring them from living within thousands of feet of schools or playgrounds. Their case became a focal point in efforts to reform…
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Philip Levine Might Ride a Democratic Wave Into the Governor’s Mansion
In September 2014, Norma Healey, a widow from Texas, took a weeklong Royal Caribbean cruise with a pack of younger friends. They’d leave Galveston, Texas, and stop in Cozumel, Grand Cayman, and Jamaica. Healey, a rouge-haired, blue-eyed 75-year-old of medium build and a skin tone that “doesn’t do well in…
Miami Cops Drop Charges After Arresting Wrong Guys in Liberty City Shooting
Six hours ago, Miami Police held a press conference where Mayor Francis Suarez lauded the cops for their “diligent” work apprehending two suspects in last month’s high-profile shooting in Liberty City that killed two teenagers and sparked a student-led walkout. Just hours later, MPD sheepishly released those same suspects and…
Robert Runcie Blames Messy Records for Misinformation About Promise Program
Critics have slammed Broward County Public Schools Superintendent Robert Runcie all day amid news that — contrary to Runcie’s repeated claims — Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School shooter Nikolas Cruz was involved in the controversial Promise disciplinary program before becoming a mass killer. Now Runcie is pushing back by blaming inefficient record-keeping and insisting he gave the best information he had at the time about Cruz’s participation in Promise.
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Critics Slam Runcie After District Contradicts His Statements on Cruz’s Disciplinary Record
WLRN dropped a bombshell report this morning: After months of denials from Broward County Public Schools Superintendent Robert Runcie and other top officials, the district admitted that, in fact, Marjory Stoneman Douglas mass shooter Nikolas Cruz was assigned to the controversy-mired Promise program.
Florida Has Fourth-Worst Medical Care in America, Report Warns
Because Florida is run by former hospital executive Rick Scott, you might assume the state would have a solid health-care system. But Scott is a profiteer whose company stole an unprecedented amount of money from Medicare and Medicaid in the ’90s and who as governor then refused to expand Medicaid…
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…
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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.