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 […]
It’s about time. It took the murder of yet another black man at the hands of police, this time it was George Floyd in Minneapolis, to come to this. It took the tear gassing of peaceful protesters exercising their right to denounce the brutal killing. It took the arrest of passionate student demonstrators, sitting on […]
It’s not enough to drop charges. The Miami-Dade State Attorney’s Office should investigate abuses and violations of civil and human rights by police officers during the protests that have come in the wake of abuse and human rights violations exposed by the death of a black man in Minneapolis at the hands of police last […]
A coalition of Puerto Rican organizations across Florida have come together to denounce the murder of George Floyd and demand justice, drawing a connection between the systemic racism in U.S. law enforcement and the justice system to Puerto Rico after Hurricane Maria — during which 2,975 people on the island died and the president literally tossed […]