Part of the proceeds go to the Save the Chickens Defense Fund
You, too, can be the proud owner of a Joe Carollo wifebeater tank top with the Miami commissioner’s mugshot on it. Or maybe, like Ladra, you want a mugshot coffee mug.
In the wake of a highly questionable arrest Saturday of a protester at a public city of Miami park event, political critic, award-winning filmmaker and Carollo nemesis Billy Corben has stepped up to help Morgan Gianola pay his legal fees — with mercy.
Specifically, the Pollo Carollo online store, where one can purchase the wifebeater tank top that the protesters, dressed as chickens, wore for $30.50. The mug is only $19.99. There are also short-sleeved t-shirts with the mugshot on them and colorful tees with what must be the Pollo Carollo logo for $30.50 and a fancy embroidered cap for $35 (makes a great gift!).
A personal favorite is the t-shirt with a photoshopped Carollo wearing his own Joe Cmugshot wifebeater. It will surely become a collectible. Ladra predicts a high number of sales.
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Part of the proceeds will go to help Gianola pay for his attorneys and you can save $3.05 by entering the code COMEMIERDA.
No, seriously.
Gianola was charged with trespassing, disorderly conduct and resisting arrest without violence after police tossed the small group of protesters out of Maurice Ferre Park, where Carollo was hosting the grand opening of his boondoggle $900,000 dog and cat scam, er, sculpture park. They said he refused to leave. But his attorney, David Winker, says Gianola simply didn’t know they had been illegally trespassed and was just trying to find out what was going on.
And it sure doesn’t seem that Gianola, a post doctorate scholar at the University of Miami, would refuse a police command. That’s Doctor Chicken, officers!
Carollo called the protesters “haters” who wanted to make the city look bad.
“The city doesn’t need my help getting bad publicity,” Corben told Ladra. “They just can’t help themselves.”
Corben’s fight with Carollo started around the recall effort in 2020. His scathing twitter feed supported the ouster of the abusive and corrupt Carollo. It got the commissioner’s attention and Crazy Joe went antisemite at a meeting, mocking Corben’s Jewish heritage.
Corben — whose birth name is William Cohen but adopted Corben as a stage name when he was a child actor — has rented mobile LED billboard trucks to cruise City Hall and, most recently, a Little Havana Carollo event, with photos of the mugshot and audio of Carollo’s then 10-year-old daughter calling 911: “Help! My dad is hurting my mom.”
The truck also blasted a parody song with the lyrics “he’s a wife beater, wife beater,” to the tune of the Bee Gees Night Fever.
The audio of the 911 call is also on the short video that Corben posted Thursday on Twitter, promoting the online store.
“Please help save the chickens. Chickens need food, shelter and bail money, Corben says in the voiceover, with footage of the protest and the arrest. “This poor chicken was arrested for clucking in a public park.”
He brings up the 2001 domestic violence arrest after Carollo threw a tea box at his wife’s face, “causing a golfball-sized welt by her eye,” Corben says.
“Over 20 years later, now commissioner Carollo continues to abuse the people of Miami, most recently misappropriating nearly $1 million tax dollars for his fourth wife’s hideous public art project.
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“And now this wannabe tinpot dictator is using the police to turn a public park into a cockfighting ring.”
Corben even got animal defender and Miami Zoo spokesman Ron Magill to endorse the merchandise: “I’m Ron Magill. Please, help save the chickens.”
Ron Magill, bro. Because Miami.
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