For once in Miami-Dade County, a police officer caught doing something blatantly racist won’t be getting his job back. Former Miami Beach Police Lt. Alex Carulo was fired alongside one other high-ranking cop in 2015 for sending hundreds of racist, sexist emails. The slew of garbage included images of a “Black Monopoly” board where every space sent the player to jail…
Miami’s seemingly never-ending saga of Jeffrey Loria, or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb might finally be coming to a close. Loria owns the Miami Marlins, a taxpayer-funded rich-person welfare program that occasionally hosts baseball games. After buying the team in 2003 for roughly $150 million, the sports-team equivalent of cereal box tops…
This morning, Miami Beach Mayor Philip Levine crossed Biscayne Bay and drove to WLRN public radio’s studios in Doral. He spoke to listeners about why his city had passed a resolution urging Miami-Dade County Mayor Carlos Gimenez to reverse an earlier decision — and make the county a “sanctuary” for undocumented immigrants.
Most burglars wouldn’t bother cutting the lawn. But on an April day in 2014, that’s exactly what raised the suspicions of a woman in one Miami neighborhood. When she saw a strange man cutting the grass outside a home on SW Fourth Street, she called the homeowner to let him know.
Cops are supposed to give other cops “professional courtesy” when they’re out in public. That means they’re not supposed to arrest or ticket one another when they’re caught breaking the law. But after Donna “Jane” Watts, a Florida Highway Patrol officer, caught Fausto Lopez, a City of Miami cop, rocketing up the highway at 120 mph, she pulled him over — at gunpoint.
Jeffrey Loria’s endgame has always been obvious. Loria has spent two decades constructing an elaborate baseball Ponzi scheme, starting in ’99, when he dropped just $12 million for a stake in the Montreal Expos and culminating in 2011 when he wrangled a new Miami Marlins stadium paid for by the taxpayers of Miami-Dade County to the tune of $2.4 billion.
Miami Beach Police want to install controversial license-plate readers permanently on the city’s causeways. But it’s difficult to imagine how the department’s plate-reading dragnet could possibly get bigger: According to data New Times obtained from MBPD, the department sucked up data from at least 11,388,106 license plates in the past year.
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Ah, a day at the beach: sunny skies, white sand, gentle waves, and floating LED billboards for Señor Frog’s.
As Donald Trump and his cohorts have spread outright lies about immigrants to bolster their harsh policies, news organizations should take extra care to approach the subject with nuance, care, and proper context. Instead, two stories published Tuesday and Wednesday in the Miami Herald repeatedly omit basic facts about U.S. immigration,…
Sen. Elizabeth Warren stepped to the Senate floor last night with a simple plan: Reading a letter by civil rights icon Coretta Scott King that criticized Attorney General nominee Jeff Sessions. Given Sessions’ incendiary record on racial justice, King’s opinion was quite relevant to the debate on whether Sessions should…
The Miami Heat used to be really, really bad. Way back in January 2017, the Heat was a putrid basketball team that had lost 30 of 41 games. People wanted Miami to start tanking. They said the Heat should trade Hassan Whiteside for Carmelo Anthony. They threw dirt on the season before it was confirmed dead.
Oh, the single life. Scrolling through Tinder while avoiding men who post photos only of themselves in Scarface T-shirts. Setting up Google alerts for your ex who travels the world painting watercolors of dog weddings. And, of course, drinking heavily to drown your sorrows, only to climb back into bed in your parents’ house in Kendall, because single people have been priced out of Miami’s rental market.
Remember over the summer when Marco Rubio waxed eloquent about how he and his fellow U.S. senators would be a strong “check and balance” on Donald Trump? Hahahaha! That was a funny one, Marco. Rubio now has a sterling 100 percent voting record backing all of President Trump’s nominees and plans…
This morning in a courtroom in Tallahassee, the seven justices of the state’s Supreme Court will hear a case that should be of interest to any Floridian concerned about bad cops. At stake is the question of whether citizens have the right to investigate police or whether we should trust…
Miami-Dade Mayor Carlos Gimenez’s decision to honor President Trump’s crackdown on undocumented immigrants could affect more than 1,000 people this year, according to a Miami Herald analysis. But if you’re upset about that, you’ll have to try and reach the mayor via mail. His office is now refusing…
Aboard the sleek, new Shalom, the pride of the Israeli fleet, a bit of dancing and merriment was still going on at 2 a.m. when a strange grinding noise forced the band to interrupt its tune. The drummer clumsily fell off his stool. It was a frigid and foggy Thanksgiving…
Miami-Dade County Mayor Carlos Gimenez has argued his decision to bow to President Donald Trump’s bellicose order banning so-called sanctuary cities — which refuse to cooperate with Immigration and Customs Enforcement requests to deport undocumented people — was purely financial. Trump threatened to pull federal funding from cities that refuse to comply, and Gimenez says Miami-Dade could lose up to $355 million.
Have you seen the latest issue of Der Spiegel? That’s normally an odd question in Miami, which is not exactly bursting with subscriptions to Germany’s favorite weekly news magazine. But thanks to a brutal cover illustration of Donald Trump holding holding the bloodied, severed head of Lady Liberty, everyone is talking about this week’s edition.
In 2014, the brother of Marlon Woodstock, a resident of Sunrise in Broward County, called to warn police that the 38-year-old was off his medication and possibly a danger to himself. Sunrise Police responded by tasering Woodstock, attacking him with a dog, and then shooting him dead.
Carlos Gimenez, the mayor of Miami-Dade County, is a man so boring he might actually just be a pile of wood pulp with googly eyes stuck to the sides. So it’s somewhat surprising to see pro-immigration activists marching through the streets of Miami, chanting, “Shame on you!” at the mayor,…
Apparently, every large gathering in Miami Beach is now an excuse to attack citizens’ privacy rights. In recent years, Miami Beach Police have cracked down hard on Memorial Day revelers, including with license-plate readers, which groups including the American Civil Liberties Union say pose a risk to the privacy of innocent people.
