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  Miami-Dade Can Be Held Liable for Detaining U.S. Citizen for ICE, Judge Rules

  November 14 at 8 a.m.

  Garland Creedle is an American citizen. But he nevertheless spent a night in a Miami-Dade County jail waiting to be deported in 2017, thanks to a mistake by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement. So, he and the American Civil Liberties Union sued ICE and Miami-Dade County...

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  Miami Gardens Cop Accused of Groping Mentally Ill Woman Would Like to Keep His Job, Please

  November 6 at 7:30 a.m.

  Last week, the Miami Gardens Police Department fired Sgt. Javier Romaguera, a cop with a long history of unethical and arguably illegal behavior. Hired in 2006, he was accused three years later of filling out a bogus police report, saying he had street contact with a man who was actually in jail at the time...

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  Hialeah Police Allegedly Mocked Disabled Man and Called Him N-Word Before Arresting Him

  November 2 at 4:25 p.m.

  In 2015, Elgin Hilliard was involved in an accident at work. His injuries were so severe he now walks with a cane and permanently cannot work. But in 2016, barely a year after the accident, Hialeah Police officers allegedly found him so intimidating they threatened to fire their Tasers at him, accused him of threatening to attack the cops, and screamed racial slurs at him, Hilliard says. He alleges in a federal lawsuit filed yesterday that Hialeah officers made comments about his "black ass," spit on him, and called him the N-word at least once.

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  Mother of Man Shot by Cops Sues Rundle for Withholding Key Information

  October 31 at 2:54 p.m.

  Twenty-three-year-old Juvon Simon was at his apartment in Florida City when cops showed up on the afternoon of May 30. According to a witness, Simon ran inside, shut the door, and then dropped dead; a preliminary investigation found that Florida City Police Officer Frantz Hardy was responsible for firing two shots through the door, killing Simon almost instantly.

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  Feds Arrest Cesar Sayoc in Pipe Bomb Case That Targeted Trump Critics

  October 26 at 12:05 p.m.

  Friday, federal officers arrested a man outside an AutoZone store in Plantation in connection with several pipe bombs that were sent to several prominent Democrats, including former President Barack Obama and 2016 presidential candidate Hillary Clinton.

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  South Florida Cops Filmed Repeatedly Punching 14-Year-Old Black Girl

  October 19 at 6:29 p.m.

  There is virtually no reason for a group of large adult male cops to pin a 14-year-old girl to the ground and continully punch her in the ribs and kidneys. Yet after Coral Springs Police officers were filmed doing exactly that to a teen outside the Coral Square Mall yesterday, the police department is now trying to defend itself and callously throwing the teen under the bus for somehow provoking the beating.