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  Miami Man Sues After Cops Framed Him for Theft, Got Him Deported to Haiti

  September 18 at 5:12 p.m.

  Clarens Desrouleaux spent five years in prison for burglary before he was deported to Haiti last year. The problem is that he never stole anything from anyone. Desrouleaux was, in fact, a victim of a heinous scheme by former Biscayne Park Police Chief Raimundo Atesiano in which he told his cops to frame black residents for burglaries in order to make his department seem competent.

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  Activists Say ICE Banned Them From Helping Immigrants After Protest

  September 18 at 8:39 a.m.

  Bud Conlin, a heavily bearded former high-school principal with a grandfatherly demeanor, has been showing up at the Krome Processing Center once a week since 2014. He's the co-coordinator of Friends of Miami-Dade Detainees, a nonprofit that visits people at the Immigration and Customs Enforcement detention center, buys them books, and puts money...

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  Miami-Area Police Chief Pleads Guilty to Framing Black Teen

  September 14 at 3:43 p.m.

  It takes a special sort of asshole to pin a bunch of crimes on an innocent 16-year-old kid just for being black. But former Biscayne Park Police Chief Raimundo Atesiano now admits he's exactly that sort of asshole: Federal prosecutors announced today that Atesiano pleaded guilty to framing a Biscayne Park teenager...

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  Hialeah Taco Bell Employee Threatens to Call Cops on Black Woman for Ordering Food

  September 14 at 2:31 p.m.

  The Taco Bell menu is pretty easy to comprehend in any language. Hell, half of it is just made-up words anyway — CrunchWrap Supremes and "nacho fries" aren't exactly ancestral Mexican dishes. You can also order food by simply shouting a combo number, such as "T3" for a three-taco meal.

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  Miami Cops Plan to Use New 90-Minute DNA Tests, Alarming Civil Liberty Groups

  September 14 at 9:30 a.m.

  Traditionally, police need two to three months to collect, process, and analyze DNA samples. But with a new kind of technology recently adopted by the Miami Police Department, the entire procedure can be wrapped up in less time than it takes to watch a movie. Soon enough, the agency says, it'll be able to analyze a suspect's DNA before he or she is even released from custody.

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  Miami Police Employees Fired for Taking Items From Storage Units

  September 14 at 8 a.m.

  Two civilian employees of the Miami Police Department were quietly fired this week after they were caught taking police "property" from storage lockers and placing it inside their own cars, a Miami Police spokesperson confirmed to New Times yesterday. A third civilian employee tied to the scheme resigned amid the investigation.