Ryan NicolJune 11, 2020
4min1161
Protesters have been calling for chokehold bans, among other police reforms.
Tag: Miami-Dade Police Department
Ryan NicolJune 11, 2020
Peter SchorschSeptember 27, 2018
6min874
Last week, federal authorities fined Munilla Construction Management $25,868 for “serious” safety violations in its role as the contractor on the Florida International University bridge that collapsed in March, killing six people. The morning after the collapse, Juan Perez, director of the Miami-Dade Police Department, said the department’s homicide squad would explore criminal charges for […]
Guest AuthorSeptember 4, 2018
5min724
Former police officers in Biscayne Park, a small suburb north of Miami, are charged with framing innocent people in an effort to boost the department’s crime-solving record. Raimundo Atesiano, the police chief who resigned in 2014, allegedly directed his force to pin unsolved crimes on random black people in the community. False confessions played a […]
Jim RosicaMay 5, 20185min561
A lawyer for the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) has told a Tallahassee judge that “at least two federal agencies” and Miami-Dade police are pursuing criminal investigations into March’s collapse of a pedestrian bridge at the Florida International University campus. The disclosure came in a letter sent this week to Circuit Judge John Cooper, who’s presiding […]