Barely a day after Florida International University’s pedestrian bridge collapsed and killed six people, Miami-Dade State Attorney Katherine Fernandez Rundle told multiple news stations she had already all but ruled out charging anyone with crimes over the deaths. She made that flabbergasting statement without even interviewing a single witness, while rescuers were still working to pull bodies from the rubble.
Cheryn Smilen seemed like someone who cared deeply about South Florida’s stray cat population. She helped the Cat Network with its sterilization efforts, fed cats for friends while they were out of town, and ran her own rescue where she listed dozens of cats available for adoption.
A bikini-clad dancer rides a white horse into the middle of a raucous nightclub crowd — until the animal suddenly bucks, throwing off its rider and stamping in a panic around the club. The cheering crowd is suddenly horrified, gasping as the clearly distressed horse tries to escape the noisy room.
As politicians like Marco Rubio and Rick Scott have shown no appetite to buck their NRA donors by banning assault rifles after the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School massacre last month, activists have turned the pressure on corporate America instead. It’s worked: Dick’s has stopped selling the weapons, and major firms such as Delta have ditched the NRA.
Last week, Sen. Marco Rubio stood on the Senate floor and announced a plan he said could prevent mass shootings like the Parkland massacre that left 17 dead. Despite weeks of pleas from Marjory Stoneman Douglas High survivors, his pitch had nothing to do with gun control.
In 2003, Bolivian President Gonzalo Sánchez de Lozada and Defense Minister Carlos Sánchez Berzaín fled to Miami amid roiling protests in La Paz. The two had enraged indigenous Bolivians by trying to sell off the country’s natural gas reserves to private corporations and then had responded to peaceful protests by ordering out the army, which killed 58 civilians and wounded more than 400 people.
“Excited delirium” is not an officially recognized medical condition. The term was invented in Miami to describe why so many cocaine and crack addicts were dying in the city’s streets during the 1980s, but many medical experts say the condition — when someone’s brain basically short-circuits due to a combination of drugs and stress…
In 2015, Jessica Mooney sat next to her fiancee at a Fort Lauderdale bus terminal as he filmed Fort Lauderdale Police Officer Victor Ramirez slapping a homeless man in the face. The In 2015, Jessica Mooney sat next to her fiancé at a Fort Lauderdale bus terminal as he filmed Fort Lauderdale Police Officer Victor Ramirez slapping a homeless man in the face.
On Tuesday, January 2, Miami Design and Architecture Senior High (DASH) teacher Orestes Amador Jr. turned his black Volkswagen Passat left on Hialeah Drive just after 7 p.m. Seconds later, a police cruiser plowed into him at the intersection of East Fifth Avenue. The crash was so violent the police car flew into a neighboring ice-cream shop, and witnesses said the boom shook the entire block.
Miami Beach promotes itself as a haven for progressives, LGBTQ people, and open-minded folks from all over the globe, yet in its recent push to crack down on crime, the city has alarmed civil liberties groups. The city and police department have recently praised the local group Crime Prevention and Awareness, a collection of vigilantes fighting to increase bond amounts for criminals.
If you’re trying to predict what kind of new legislation Tallahassee will eventually pass in response to the Parkland massacre, just ask a simple question: What would Marion Hammer do? The über-powerful NRA lobbyist has spent the past 20 years methodically turning the Sunshine State into a heavily armed free-for-all, and so far, the bought-and-paid-for GOP Legislature has never failed to do her bidding.
Broward County Sheriff Scott Israel has clearly found one person to blame for Nikolas Cruz’s shooting rampage: Scot Peterson, the armed BSO deputy who, Israel says, failed to rush into the school and “kill the killer” while Cruz was murdering students and teachers. Israel held a stunning news conference last week in which he said Peterson “never went in” to the school and stood outside for four minutes as the massacre occurred.
Earlier this month, Miami-Dade County Police Director Juan Perez stood in front of the county commission and with a straight face insisted increased civilian oversight of his police department is “not needed.”
For a moment, Broward Sheriff Scott Israel seemed like a breakout media voice in the aftermath of the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School massacre. As he sparred with the NRA’s Dana Loesch at CNN’s town hall last week, his national clout exploded.
Immigrants are forced to line up before the crack of dawn for scheduled meetings at Miami’s Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) field office, which actually sits in Miramar in neighboring Broward County. New Times reported this month that immigrants there were forced to stand in the heat and rain for hours without…
In the days after the mass shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High, student journalist David Hogg quickly rose to prominence for interviewing classmates while hiding from the gunman in a dark closet. But he wasn’t the only student to begin covering the awful story as he lived it. From the moment…
Yeah, uh, definitely do not do what the Miami-Dade County Public Schools student did in the photo above. A mere week after Nikolas Cruz killed 17 students and teachers at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School, the kid pictured here appears to have posed with an assault-style rifle and captioned the image “Here’s a fat FUCK YOU to everyone.”
Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School had an armed and trained police guard at the school the day Nikolas Cruz killed 17 students and teachers. People have since questioned why the guard wasn’t able to stop Cruz from committing the massacre. Broward County Sheriff Scott Israel solved that mystery minutes ago: BSO School Resource Officer Scot Peterson “never went in” to confront Cruz as the shooting occurred.
The day after a disturbed student burst into his former school with a military-style rifle and shot 17 people to death, Chris Grady was sitting at home, feeling “pretty useless.” The 18-year-old senior at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High kept thinking he should be doing something about the massacre.
One day after 19-year-old Nikolas Cruz used an AR-15 to kill 17 people in Parkland, Florida, last Wednesday, Broward County Sheriff Scott Israel ended a news conference by proposing an idea that is sure to trouble free-speech and civil-liberty activists: He called for lawmakers in D.C. and Tallahassee to pass laws letting cops detain civilians just for posting “questionable” things on social media, including photographs of knives or vague comments about admiring serial killers, even if the people writing the posts aren’t actually threatening anyone.
Miami’s relatively small cadre of reporters spent the entire week struggling to cover a horrific school shooting in Parkland. The entire nation has been preoccupied with debates about gun control, politicians have spent most of the past few days reacting to news from Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School, and typical news “beat” reporters have been shuffled around to cover the shooting news round-the-clock since Wednesday.
In a startling announcement, the FBI said in a news release moments ago that someone “close to Nikolas Cruz” called the bureau this past January 5 — slightly more than 30 days before this week’s massacre — and warned the federal government that Cruz owned guns and had expressed a desire to commit a school shooting.
