News From A Colorful Perspective
A Miami-Dade Police aide was placed on administrative duty after he was investigated for reportedly saying a Black female sergeant looked “like a monkey”, according to a report from the Miami Herald. Pablo Espinoza, who works as a public service aide for the Miami-Dade Police Department, allegedly made the racist…
The White House is condemning a violent meme video of a fake President Donald Trump shooting and stabbing the media and his political opponents that was shown at a conference for his supporters at his Miami resort. The footage, which the New York Times obtained, was from a conference that…
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 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…
During Miami Art Week, one of the city’s busiest times of the year, a Black-owned art gallery in Little Haiti was vandalized with a spray-painted swastika and profanity. Karla Ferguson, owner of Yeelen Gallery, realized on Saturday morning there was a hate symbol defacing the outside of the building. “An…
An off-duty Miami Beach police officer and her sister brutally attacked a woman while she was on a date with her boyfriend. Ambar Pacheco kicked eight-months-pregnant, Evoni Murray, age 27, in the stomach and has been fired, police officials said. The attack sent Murray into premature labor. Evoni Murray told…
Six Miami firefighters were fired this week after allegedly placing a noose over a Black lieutenant’s family photo as well as drawing sexually graphic images on photos. Among the men terminated were a captain and a lieutenant. The incident took place in September at the City of Miami Fire Station…
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