Race Issues Rise for Miami Police

[Judi Lynn]

Source: Herald-Tribune

Race Issues Rise for Miami Police
DON VAN NATTA Jr.
Published: Wednesday, March 23, 2011 at 5:09 a.m.
Last Modified: Wednesday, March 23, 2011 at 5:09 a.m.

MIAMI — The video, shot with a hand-held camera, shows brawny Miami police officers breaking down doors and hauling handcuffed African-American suspects off some of the city’s toughest streets. “We hunt,” one officer says in the five-and-a-half-minute clip. “I like to hunt.”

But it was not a source of embarrassment for Miami’s police chief, Miguel A. Exposito. The video was part of a reality television pilot, “Miami’s Finest SOS,” a project with the enthusiastic backing of Chief Exposito. “Our guys were proactively going out there, like predators,” he says during his cameo in the video, which surfaced online in January.

A few weeks later, a Miami police officer shot and killed a black man during a traffic stop at North Miami Avenue and 75th Street in the Little Haiti neighborhood. The man, Travis McNeil, 28, was unarmed and never left the driver’s seat of his rental car when he was shot once in the chest, members of his family said.

Mr. McNeil was the seventh African-American man to be shot and killed by Miami police officers in eight months. The shootings in this racially polarized city have led to marches on the Police Department’s headquarters and calls for a Justice Department investigation, and the city manager has initiated an investigation into the chief’s record.





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[LiberalFighter]

1. They ought to hunt the police chief.

[Peregrine]

2. So

I assume since this appears on this site, the police were "hunting" african-americans without warrants or probable cause. Just randomly hauling them off the street. And of the 7 killed in the past 8 months, all must have been unarmed and didn't pose any threat to the police or others.

[Judi Lynn]

3. If it distresses you to read LBN, why not consider something less outrageous?

Your post drips with hostility toward some position you appear to imagine is shared here toward policemen.

Maybe you should either learn more about LBN or learn to live with differing opinions.

[Peregrine]

4. Do you read this site???

Or do you just like listening to yourself pontificate? I'm not angry, just tired of people using stories with no details so they can show racism.

[provis99]

5. the white Cuban exiles are notorious for their racism.

I'm not surprised it's white Cuban cops gunning down black Americans. Wish we could ship all these right-wing assholes back to Cuba to let Castro deal with them.