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  Miami Gardens Cop Accused of Racism Sues for Anti-White "Discrimination"

  August 20 at 8:30 a.m.

  Another day, another South Florida cop suing his department because he feels persecuted for being white. Poor guy. In the latest case filed in Miami-Dade court last week, Miami Gardens Police Officer William Dunaske sued the force for "anti-white" harassment. The twist: Dunaske has repeatedly been accused of racism and abuse, and he filed the suit after a fight over why he had named his dog after a black officer in the department.

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  Hialeah Police Prepare for "Civil Unrest" With $134,000 Purchase of Ballistic Helmets

  August 16 at 8 a.m.

  The last time a giant protest turned into a chaotic state of civil unrest in Hialeah was — well, it's hard to point to a recent example. The city's police stay busy chasing crotch-grabbing car dealers, fake veterinarians, and mail thieves, but a mob of angry rioters has yet to descend upon the "City of Progress."

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  Miami Police Department That Fatally Ran Over Graffiti Artist Debuts Sweet New Graffiti Car

  August 8 at 4:05 p.m.

  In 2014, Miami Police officers chased a 21-year-old graffiti artist named Demz who was tagging a wall in Wynwood during Art Basel. During the pursuit, the cops ran the artist over, killing him. The officer who ran over Demz, who just happened to be the son of a Miami-Dade prosecutor,...

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  Black Teen Framed by Miami-Area Cops Sues Department

  August 7 at 1:54 p.m.

  Even in 2018, it's a shock to actually hear cops admit to straight-up framing black suspects as a matter of policy. That's exactly what's happened in Biscayne Park. In June, federal prosecutors unsealed an indictment alleging that Raimundo Atestiano, the former chief of the tiny Miami-Dade town, had intentionally framed...

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  Florida's Private-Prison Population Spiked 211 Percent Since 2000

  August 3 at 11 a.m.

  America largely phased out the use of privately run, for-profit jails and prison facilities in the early 20th Century after the public realized the practice of making a profit from caging people was a particularly heinous piece of the capitalist economy. But amid a government privatization push under Ronald Reagan, the idea came back. Two private-prison firms — California's CoreCivic and Florida's GEO Group — dominate the for-profit human-caging business today.

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  Mentally Ill South Florida Man Starved to Death in Prison, Lawsuit Alleges

  August 3 at 8 a.m.

  When Vincent Gaines was sentenced to five years in prison on robbery charges in June 2013, state officials recommended he be placed in a mental-health unit because he had regular visual and auditory hallucinations. So Gaines was transferred to the Dade Correctional Institution in South Miami-Dade County, where he was placed on a "boneless diet" that left the five-foot-nine man 40 pounds lighter — dropping from 190 to 151 — in just 18 months.