Miami Beach chief says he’ll hand over recordings in Memorial Day shooting
Source: Miami Herald
Posted on Thursday, 05.30.13
Miami Beach chief says he’ll hand over recordings in Memorial Day shooting
BY JULIE K. BROWN
jbrown@MiamiHerald.com
Amid scathing criticism and calls for a U.S. Justice Department probe, Miami Beach police on Thursday announced that they would release the police radio transmissions in connection with a May 2011 Memorial Day Weekend shooting.
The recordings however, will not be made public, but distributed to the lawyers for the victims, Miami Beach Police Chief Ray Martinez said. Initially, the chief wanted to make them public, he said, but Assistant City Attorney Aleksandr Boksner warned him that he would be breaking the law and could be charged with a third-degree felony.
Martinez contacted the plaintiffs’ attorneys directly to make arrangements to deliver the recordings, which are considered among the most important pieces of evidence in the case. Twelve police officers — eight from Miami Beach and four from Hialeah — are under criminal investigation in connection with the shooting.
One person was killed and four others critically wounded when the officers fired 116 shots at a drunk, erratic motorist during the city’s annual Urban Beach festival. Two years and several lawsuits later, police — up until now — have failed to produce evidence to justify the deadly onslaught during the event, which attracts a largely African American crowd.
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