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On Tuesday, January 2, Miami Design and Architecture Senior High (DASH) teacher Orestes Amador Jr. turned his black Volkswagen Passat left on Hialeah Drive just after 7 p.m. Seconds later, a police cruiser plowed into him at the intersection of East Fifth Avenue. The crash was so violent the police car flew into a neighboring ice-cream shop, and witnesses said the boom shook the entire block.

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.

If you’re trying to predict what kind of new legislation Tallahassee will eventually pass in response to the Parkland massacre, just ask a simple question: What would Marion Hammer do? The über-powerful NRA lobbyist has spent the past 20 years methodically turning the Sunshine State into a heavily armed free-for-all, and so far, the bought-and-paid-for GOP Legislature has never failed to do her bidding.

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.”

For a moment, Broward Sheriff Scott Israel seemed like a breakout media voice in the aftermath of the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School massacre. As he sparred with the NRA’s Dana Loesch at CNN’s town hall last week, his national clout exploded.

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…

In the days after the mass shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High, student journalist David Hogg quickly rose to prominence for interviewing classmates while hiding from the gunman in a dark closet. But he wasn’t the only student to begin covering the awful story as he lived it. From the moment…

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.”