In a tragic loss for the LGBTQ community, Florida marriage equality activist Jorge Diaz-Johnston has been found dead in what appears to be a still-unsolved murder. Bianca Padró Ocasio of the Miami Herald reported that “Diaz-Johnston, 54, had been missing since Jan. 3. His body was found in a trash…
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Lester Brown, Miami-Area Police Officer, Charged After Pushing Migrant Worker Inmate Jose Garcia Into a Wall
A Miami-area police officer, Lester Brown, has been charged with felony battery and official misconduct after a surveillance video revealed him pushing an inmate — a migrant worker named Jose Garcia — head first into a wall and injuring him. Garcia was arrested Dec. 1 and brought to the Homestead Police…
Trayvon Martin’s Mom, Sybrina Fulton, Running for Miami-Dade Commissioner So ‘Families are safe from violence’
Trayvon Martin was unarmed and only 17 years old in 2012 when he was shot by 28-year-old “neighborhood watch captain” George Zimmerman. When Zimmerman was acquitted on the basis of “self-defense” using Florida’s Stand Your Ground Law, it sparked nation-wide protests and the Black Lives Matter movement. The tragedy also…
Archived: Uncounted Ballots Remain in Mail Center That Processed #MAGABomber Weapons: Report
Miami-Dade County, Fla., election officials claimed that all of the votes for the area had been counted. But according to an anonymous tip, that appears to be untrue. The Opa-locka mail distribution center was closed and hasn’t been reopened due to the arrest of #MAGABomber, Cesar Sayoc Jr., whose pipe…