Miami’s rent has risen 36% over the last year, one of the largest increases in the United States and one that many local tenants have been unable to keep up with.
When CBS4 News asked Mayor Francis Suarez what he believes would be a solution to the present rent crisis, he suggested that Miami’s working-class should find a cheaper place to live, get a raise, or find a better-paying job.
Sgt. Christopher Pullease of the Sunrise Police Department was placed on desk duty after the release of body camera footage from an incident on November 19th, 2021. Footage shows Pullease grabbed another young officer by the throat after she stopped him from pepper-spraying an already handcuffed arrestee.
“I find this behavior to be disgusting”, said Chief Anthony Rosa in an interview with WLRN 7 News, omitting that the officer in question was not even placed on administrative leave and remains on full-pay status while serving desk duty.
Dozens of Tampa Bay community members gathered at the St. Petersburg police department headquarters on Friday, protesting the racist police shooting of 17-year-old Christopher Tonsel by deputy Leighton Williams.
In recently published body camera footage, Tonsel is seen dropping his weapon in compliance with an order given by police, before officer Leighton Williams shoots him moments later as Tonsel’s weapon falls to the ground. The footage completely contradicted previous police statements that claimed the 17-year-old had aimed his gun at officer Williams.
Demonstrators demanded that officer Leighton Williams be charged with attempted murder and that Cristopher Tonsel have trumped-up charges of aggravated assault on a police officer dropped.
Media via Party for Socialism and Liberation Tampa Bay Chapter (@psltampabay), Progressive Peoples’ Action (@ppapinellas), and @_.voodoo
14 inmates went on strike at the Taylor Correctional Institution in North Florida, protesting horrible prison conditions and forced labor in the Florida prison system.
According to a flyer circulating within the Florida Department of Corrections facilities, the demonstration was organized by inmates on Tuesday in response:
To our conditions of slavery and forced free labor
To living in substandard conditions
To the lack of a real parole system
To unethical mental health and medical care
To unjust sentencing schemes and practices
To super-inflated canteen pricing
“Year after year, they continue to fail to do anything comprehensive to fix and undo the atrocities and destruction caused by their criminal and inhumane legislation.”
Some facilities within the prison went on lockdown in response to the planned strike, according to families of inmates incarcerated there.
Dozens of Boynton Beach community members attended the city commission meeting on Tuesday to demand justice for Stanley Davis Jr. a.k.a SJ, a 13-year-old Black boy killed in a crash while being chased by police on his dirt bike.
Photo via Jorge Milian
Stanley Davis, SJ’s father, requested a thorough and transparent investigation, asking the mayor and city commissioners to “do what’s right.” Davis also revealed that the medical examiner had found that his son had tears in his eyes at the time of his death, according to an autopsy.
For me to hear from the medical examiner that my son had tears in his eyes, meaning he was crying while being chased … That’s what tears me apart. To know that his final moment, he was alone. He was afraid.
After a 7-year-long legal battle between Ft. Lauderdale Food Not Bombs and the City of Fort Lauderdale, FNB has won a settlement and payment for legal fees by the City for attempting to ban food sharing in parks.
The settlement came amid Food Not Bombs’ victory in their 2nd appeal of the lawsuit in August 2021, and, according to the group’s Facebook page, will create “a strongly worded precedent about sharing food as protected free speech.”
We had to bite our tongues a lot over the years to see how this would play out, but no more. We out-lived and out-maneuvered the old Mayor, City Manager, and City Attorney, who were all intent on policing us and the homeless out of existence. Fuck them! Let’s not forget multiple FLPD Chiefs and Captains who sent their goons to stalk and arrest us, all gone now! Nuts to all the narrow-minded fools who wanted to be rid of us.
Over 1,000 protesters and community members marched to honor the life of Stanley Davis Jr., a 13-year-old boy on a dirt bike killed during a traffic stop chase by Boynton Beach police. Demonstrators rode various vehicles, including road bikes and normal bicycles, and held signs demanding justice for Stanley, known to many as SJ.
The rally first began from the gas station where SJ last filled up his dirt bike, heading down the route he was chased down until reaching the destination where SJ crashed and was killed. Demonstrators held a moment of silence, before returning to the gas station and largely ending the protest.
Dozens gathered at Broward County Jail for the annual New Years’ Eve protest in solidarity with prisoners inside, chanting and banging drums beyond the walls of the complex.
Media via: Vivian Frederique, Community Hotline for Incarcerated People, chibicovfefe, & Sirtou
Per new information on the attempted traffic stop by Boynton Beach police that killed a 13-year-old boy on a dirt bike, Tina Hunter identified Stanley Davis as her only grandson in an interview with WPTV 5.
“That was my grandson, my only grandson,” said Hunter. “They chased him, chased him. He just panicked because he’s a kid. Chased him right to his damn grave and figured he’s just another Black boy and ain’t nothing is going to be done. That’s the prejudice of the Boynton Beach police that we’ve been having problems for all these damn years.”
The Florida Highway Patrol stated that it was likely that Davis lost control of his bike before crashing into a curb and hitting a sign, where he was pronounced dead at the scene. Many Boynton Beach locals noted that there was a reason that other police departments in areas such as Marion County had policies forbidding officers from chasing people on motorcycles or dirt bikes, noting that such a protocol would have prevented the death of Stanley Davis Jr.
Following numerous requests to release footage capturing the incident, the police department’s Facebook page posted that the “vehicle involved in this incident” was “not equipped” with a dashcam.
Many expressed doubt that there was no dashcam on the car involved in the crash, given that the BBPD had built a new headquarters and equipped all of their officers and squad cars with cameras. Surveillance video released of the moments before the crash, furthermore, shows a more modern squad car trailing Davis as he left a gas station.
A 13-year-old boy was killed during an attempted traffic stop by Boynton Beach PD on Sunday afternoon. Police stated that they attempted to apprehend the boy, who was “riding recklessly”, and that the dirt bike went down during the attempted stop, killing the child.
In response to a publication by CBS4 Miami covering the story, a barrage of Twitter users expressed anger at the fact that the news organization had essentially copied a law enforcement press release and offered no attempt at confirming the claims of police. Frustration was also shown at the headline, which makes no mention of Boynton Beach PD or their involvement in the boy’s death.
Many also suggested that police may have rammed or even ran over the boy instead. Indeed, it is difficult to believe that a 13-year-old could have died by simply falling off a dirt bike, and the press release makes it intentionally vague as to how exactly the bike “went down”.
