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Cops Gone Wild: Miami Beach Police Pushing Limits Volume 96 Number 18 | DECEMBER 19-25, 2018 | MiamiTimesOnline.com | Ninety-Three Cents SHOTS FIRED December 15 Shooting in Overtown: 5 injured. December 1 Shooting in Overtown: 5 injured. November 23 Shooting in Brownsville: Five happened in the city in 2018, 2 dead, 5 injured. three in the last two months April 8 Shooting in Miami: FELIPE RIVAS 2 dead, 2 injured. [email protected] iami saw five reported mass shootings in 2018. Three of the five have occurred since Thanksgiving weekend. March 3 That’s according to the Gun Violence Archives, a non- Shooting in Miami: profit that monitors gun violence activity nationwide. 5 injured. MThis year, Florida was no stranger to ings plague the urban core communities, Total gun-violence-related deaths as a horrific but do not garner the same call for action Four dead and 22 injured mass shooting propelled the state to the and awareness. That’s partly because the resulting from five local forefront of the gun-violence conversation. shooting may be mislabeled as anything mass shootings. Indiscriminate shootings like the Marjory but a mass shooting. The improper classi- Stoneman Douglas High School massacre fication of gun violence cases mixed with Feb. 14 in Parkland, and the Jacksonville the negative perception that such violence Source: Gun Violence Archives Landing video-game-tournament shooting is expected from communities of color Aug. 26 caused widespread news cover- stunt awareness and calls for action. age, heightened police presence in public Miami’s mass shootings in 2018 claimed areas and drove the gun-reform conversa- four lives and 22 were injured. At the Park- tions. land high school, 17 lives were lost and as However, in Miami, local mass shoot- SEE MASS 8A Cops gone wild: Miami Beach police pushing limits Sucker punch and memos to drive an unarmed Black man at an the cases will be dismissed Ocean Drive hotel. in court,” Pizzi said. “That is out ‘undesirables’ show pattern The cellphone video is of a the culture that has been fos- police body camera, record- tered.” CAROLYN GUNISS AND a great month and that the ed Dec. 3, when police were Pizzi said since the video K. BARRETT BILALI “increased stats to me means called to the Pelican Hotel was released, he nor his client [email protected] that we are out and about, due to a disturbance. A po- has heard from Miami Beach visible, doing our jobs and we lice report filed suggests that officials. Two memos, one written are effectively scaring away Lowell Poitier Jr., a 35-year- When Pizzi sent the video the day after the release of undesirables.” old Black man, was threaten- to Miami Beach Police Chief a video that shows a Miami The two memos suggest ing to the police officer, so he Daniel Oates, City Manager Beach Police officer hitting an a pattern of aggressive en- had to defend himself. Jimmy Morales and others he unarmed Black man, suggest forcement against homeless Pizzi’s said his client, Mi- asked for whistleblower pro- Miami Beach officials wants people, said attorney Michael ami Beach police officer Fred- tection for his client. Oates to rid the city of “undesir- Pizzi, who has copies of the erick Dominguez, said the put officer Adriel Domin- ables” and that law enforce- memos and shared them with aggressive enforcement is par guez – no relation to Fredrick ment “need to do what they The Miami Times. Jimmy Morales Michael Pizzi for the course. Dominguez – on administra- can” to protect residents and “Who are the undesirables? Do they have an income lim- committing crime.” “Officer Frederick Domin- tive duty the same day the visitors. Who decides who are the un- it? This type of memo is too Pizzi is defending a Miami guez believes that they en- video was released. The lo- The other memo was writ- desirables and what tactics vague, too broad and too dan- Beach police officer who -re courage arrests and enforce- cal branch of the NAACP has ten March 2017 by Cpt. Ian are allowed to scare them gerous. I am very concerned leased a video Dec. 12 that ment to scare away perceived called for Adriel Dominguez Robinson. In the memo, Rob- away?’ said Pizzi. “Do unde- that homeless people are the shows another Miami Po- undesirables even if enforce- to be relieved of duty. inson thanked the officers for sirables have demographic? enemies even if they are not lice officer sucker punching ment is not warranted and SEE COPS 8A BUSINESS ................................................. 10B YOU & YOURS ............................................ 7D Today CLASSIFIED ............................................. 15B FAITH CALENDAR ................................... 8D 74° IN GOOD TASTE ......................................... 1C HEALTH & WELLNESS ............................. 9D LIFESTYLE HAPPENINGS ....................... 5C OBITUARIES ............................................. 12D 8 90158 00100 0 INSIDE 10D Editorials Cartoons Opinions Letters VIEWPOINT BLACKS MUST CONTROL THEIR OWN DESTINY | DECEMBER 19-25, 2018 | MiamiTimesOnline.com Credo Of The Black Press MEMBER: National Newspaper Periodicals Postage EDITORIAL The Black Press believes that America Publisher Association paid at Miami, Florida (ISSN 0739-0319) can best lead the world from racial and MEMBER: The Newspaper POSTMASTER: Published Weekly at 900 NW 54th Street, Association of America Send address changes to national antagonism when it accords Miami, Florida 33127-1818 Subscription Rates: One Year THE MIAMI TIMES, to every person, regardless of race, Guns in classrooms are Post Office Box 270200 $65.00 – Two Year $120.00 P.O. 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CHARLES BLOW, The New York Times So was the Broward County Sheriff’s Office, which was charged It is very possible that the has every right to express his with protecting them. president of the United States view of any case.” Those are the brutal but inescapable conclusions of the state is a criminal. And it is very This all holds the potential commission investigating the Feb. 14 massacre, which left 17 possible that his criminality to further make a mockery of dead and 17 injured. The panel released its 407-page draft report aided and abetted his assump- a system of justice that already Wednesday and will continue to work on it. tion of the position. privileges power. The report tells a wrenching story of warnings ignored and Prosecutors made clear in America’s jails are already safety measures untaken. One commission member, a grieving a sentencing memo for Don- filled to the brim with people parent, did not overstate in calling the Parkland massacre “the ald Trump’s personal lawyer, who have been charged with a most preventable” of school shootings, a modern phenomenon Michael Cohen, that Trump crime but not yet convicted of whose frequency and ferocity represents a unique national dis- himself had directed Cohen to one. According to the Prison grace. break campaign finance laws. Policy Initiative, “70 percent The commission identified a multitude of failures, including the Yes, there is still information of people in local jails are not failure to believe something like this could happen at Stoneman dribbling out about Trump’s convicted of any crime.” Their Douglas, the failure to appreciate the threat posed by a student in- efforts to build a tower in primary infraction is that they volved in 69 violent incidents since third grade, the failure to lock Moscow during the election are poor and powerless. The or attend open gates, the failure to respond to an active shooter and about his campaign’s ties Donald Trump justice system doesn’t coddle by calling a Code Red lockdown, the failure to create safe class- with Russians during the cam- But beyond all that, we now and to some degree his sup- them; it crushes them. room corners invisible from door windows, the failure to conduct paign. Yes, there is the ques- have an actual, and one as- porters in Congress seem to And yet, people keep mak- active-shooter drills, and the failure of law enforcement to adhere tion of obstruction of justice, sumes provable, crime. A fed- view Trump as very much ing excuses for Trump: “We to national norms in responding to a school shooting. which I believe has already eral crime. And the president above the law — or at least haven’t yet seen evidence of Regrettably, before delivering its report to the Florida Legisla- been proven by Trump’s own is its architect. some laws. collusion.” “Yes, he lies, but ture, the commission ended its final meeting with a call to arm actions in public. Yes, there Trump likes to say on the is- Last year, one of the presi- that’s mostly rhetoric.” “So teachers. are all the people in Trump’s sue of immigration that if we dent’s lawyers went even fur- what; he paid off a porn star to That’s dangerous. No teacher would be a good match for a circle who have been charged don’t have a border, we don’t ther, claiming that the “pres- spare his family shame.” deranged youth wielding a high-velocity, military-style assault with or have admitted to lying have a country.
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