You may have heard about that new movie that’s about to be released tomorrow, though you can see it today at some theaters, “The Purge: Anarchy.” It’s a 
sequel to the “The Purge,” which is basically a thriller about a future in which the law of the land is temporarily suspended.
Well, someone wants you to believe that is where Miami-Dade is headed due to threatened cuts to the police department.
But indefinitely, not just for one night, as is the premise of both films, in which the United States suspends all emergency services for 12 hours. During that time, all crime, including homicide, is legal and police and firefighter paramedics to not respond to 911 calls. Instead, people lock themselves up in their homes — well, unless they are looking for someone to, well, purge.
A poster fashioned after the first movie’s own poster is making the rounds in emails and at some police stations with the notion that Miami-Dade is going to have its own version of “The Purge,” thanks to the budget proposed by Miami-Dade Mayor Carlos “Cry Wolf” Gimenez, which calls for the closing of the Midwest Station, the firing of up to 230 police officers and cutting entire units, like the Tactical Narcotics Team, domestic violence squad and Robbery Intervention Detail and the transferring of officers from the gang unit and the marine patrol, among others.
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PBA President John Rivera told Ladra it wasn’t his group. He hadn’t even heard about it when we called him Thursday afternoon. But other people in the car with him at the time had already gotten it in their emails.
“Brace yourselves Miami-Dade County, as you are in for the rid of your lives,” the parody poster says. “So make sure you have an ample supply of water, popcorn and ammo!”
The propaganda — which really should carry a disclaimer — takes aim at Gimenez and his thick top tier of high-priced deputy mayors and advisers with a photoshopped picture of his head over one of the masked murderers in the movie and a line about this purge starring the mayor “and featuring his personal cast of overpaid cronies.”
“We would like to find out who did it. We love the creative,” Rivera told Ladra. “Tell them to call me.”
Ladra wishes she knew who the brilliant mastermind behind this was. You shouldn’t have to stay anonymous.
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