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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsMiami police chief being fired after 6 months on the job
https://www.yahoo.com/news/miami-police-chief-being-fired-005606267.htmlMIAMI (AP) Miami officials have decided to fire the citys new police chief six months into his stormy tenure, after he was lambasted by city commissioners who he accused of meddling in the police department and internal affairs investigations.
Miami City Manager Art Noriega said in a statement Monday that he suspended Chief Art Acevedo with the intent to terminate his employment.
The relationship between the Chief and the organization has become untenable and needed to be resolved promptly, Noriega said. Chief Acevedo is not the right fit for this organization.
Art Acevedo was recruited by Miami Mayor Francis Suarez, who earlier this year hailed him as Americas best chief. He was seen as a progressive law enforcer who headed the police department in Houston, but also shared ancestry with hundreds of thousands Cubans in Miami, as a Havana-born refugee.
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Miami police chief being fired after 6 months on the job (Original Post)
Carlitos Brigante
Oct 2021
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dalton99a
(81,464 posts)1. Acevedo was naive - you don't fuck with the Cuban Mafia
cloudbase
(5,513 posts)2. Houston doesn't want him back. n/t
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Baitball Blogger
(46,702 posts)3. Yikes. Looks like it's all bad.
"In an eight-page memo sent by Acevedo to the city manager and mayor before those meetings, Acevedo stated that Carollo and the other commissioners were interfering with internal affairs investigations, and improperly ordering police resources to be deployed against certain establishments based on nothing more than the whims of commissioners. He also accused the commissioners of hampering his reform mandate by eliminating positions."
XanaDUer2
(10,660 posts)5. I'm from Miami
corrupt