Man killed, multiple others injured in 2 shootings in Miami Gardens
MIAMI GARDENS, Fla. – Miami Gardens police are investigating two shootings that occurred Monday night in their city. One shooting occurred shortly before 9:20 p.m. in the area of Northwest Seventh Avenue and 183rd Street. Authorities said another shooting on Northwest Seventh Avenue near Top Golf occurred Monday evening. Police confirmed that one man was killed and multiple people were injured in the shooting. Detectives are working to determine whether the shootings were related.
Police investigating 2 northwest Miami-Dade shootings that left 7 people injured
MIAMI-DADE COUNTY, Fla. – Authorities are investigating two shootings in northwest Miami-Dade that left a total of seven people injured. Officers responded to Northwest 58th Street and 25th Avenue at approximately 6:23 p.m. Monday. Miami-Dade Fire Rescue transported all four victims to Ryder Trauma Center at Jackson Memorial Hospital. “At this time, detectives don’t have a lot of information as to what brought about the shooting,” said Miami-Dade Police Det. At least one of the victims was transported to Jackson Memorial Hospital.
2 men unknown to each other fatally shot in northwest Miami-Dade
MIAMI-DADE COUNTY, Fla. – Miami-Dade police are investigating two shootings that left two men dead late Thursday night in northwest Miami-Dade. The shooting of one of the men was reported in the area of 8190 NW 197th St. near Lawton Chiles Middle School. According to Detective Alvaro Zabaleta, officers arrived to the scene just before 11:15 p.m. and found the victim suffering from an apparent gunshot wound. Pirri said he saw the crashed Mercedes outside his Marbella Park neighborhood when was driving home. “I’ve lived here my whole life, so to hear something like that is really bizarre.”Anyone with further information is asked to call Miami-Dade Crime Stoppers at 305-471-8477.
Police contracts can stand in the way of accountability
A police officer engages with a protester Wednesday, July 1, 2020, in Seattle, where streets had been blocked off in an area demonstrators had occupied for weeks. Seattle police showed up in force earlier in the day at the "occupied" protest zone, tore down demonstrators' tents and used bicycles to herd the protesters after the mayor ordered the area cleared following two fatal shootings in less than two weeks. The "Capitol Hill Occupied Protest" zone was set up near downtown following the death of George Floyd while in police custody in Minneapolis. (AP Photo/Elaine Thompson)
Police contracts can stand in the way of accountability
Collective bargaining agreements for officers provide protections that stand in the way of accountability, even when the federal government is overseeing an agency through a consent decree, experts said. Contracts designed to ensure officers receive fair wages and benefits have spilled over into public policy. These examples bolster the hypothesis that some union contract provisions may impede effective investigations of police misconduct and shield problematic officers from discipline, Rushin said. The city entered into a settlement agreement, or consent decree, the following year and passed an accountability measure for additional oversight. One Seattle officer who benefited from the union contract in recent years was Cynthia Whitlach.
The Latest: Warren won't prosecute peaceful protesters
Hillsborough County State Attorney Andrew Warren, right, speaks during a news conference Monday, June 15, 2020, in Tampa, Fla. Warren announced his decision not to prosecute dozens of protesters arrested on charges of unlawful assembly during a Black Lives Matter march on June 2. (AP Photo/Chris O'Meara)TOP OF THE HOUR: Florida state attorney won't prosecute peaceful protesters. State Attorney Andrew Warren in Tampa said that his office wont be filing charges against 67 protesters who were arrested two weeks ago in downtown Tampa. The prosecutors office will also work to expunge the arrest records of the protesters who were taken into custody, he said. In these unlawful assembly cases, there is no value in filing charges, Warren said at a news conference.
US nears 100,000 pandemic deaths: Does Trump feel your pain?
Now there is another, a still-growing American casualty list that has exceeded deaths from the Vietnam and Korean wars combined. Actual deaths from COVID-19 are almost certainly higher than the numbers show, an undercount to be corrected in time. It is well beyond what he told people to expect even as his public-health authorities started bracing the country in early April for at least 100,000 deaths. Unlike his emotional vice president, Joe Biden, Obama practiced his own kind of social distancing, to the point of aloofness. This, too, is not Trump's way.