Miami-Dade Commissioner Barbara Jordan — who has now had her independent police review panel vetoed by the mayor twice and has failed to get a majority to overturn it — needed eight of her colleagues to support her motion Tuesday to take the issue to voters in a ballot question. She only got seven […]
As expected — or perhaps as threatened — Mayor Carlos Gimenez on Friday vetoed a county ordinance that revived a civilian review panel for questionable local law enforcement action in the wake of George Floyd’s murder by a Minnesota Police officer. He also wants to deprive voters of the chance to make the Independent Review […]
The charges against four Florida International University students who were protesting the murder of George Floyd at the hands of Minneapolis Police — and the inequitable treatment of blacks by law enforcement and criminal courts everywhere — have been dropped by state prosecutors who did not find enough evidence to move forward. “The totality of […]