Tough to imagine a worse unforced error in @MayorDaniella's first week than appointing Jimmy Morales Chief Operations Officer. If her idea of "a new day" is to empower the same villains who made us the most corrupt county in America, it's going to be a long 4 years. #BecauseMiami
Everything @MayorDaniella says about Jimmy Morales here is a lie. How she can appoint him to such an important position in our county and be so staggeringly ignorant about his record is alarming. It's like she cancelled her own administration before it even started. #BecauseMiami
For the last 7 years, Jimmy Morales was the city manager who ran Miami Beach into the ground: the city has been paralyzed by corruption, pollution and violence. Exactly what @MayorDaniella promised to fix in Miami-Dade. Here are some lowlights of his disastrous tenure:
Review finds racist, homophobic, anti-Semitic, Islamophobic content in all 32 issues of weekly insert printed in @MiamiHerald's @elnuevoherald, calling Michelle Obama "black monster," Africa the "ass of the world" and George Floyd an "ugly common criminal" miamiherald.com/news/local/com…
"Black Americans should be grateful for slavery," reads one column published in @elnuevoherald every Friday, "because it brought them to this country" and "says they have 'contributed nothing to the greatness of America,' and should decamp to Ghana if they don’t like it here."
The column also labels "LeBron James, Obama and Muhammad Ali, whom he insists on referring to as Cassius Clay" as racists, writing "There is no people in the world more racist than Black Americans, who are always accusing the whole world of racism."
#BREAKING: @MiamiHerald/@elnuevoherald publisher @MindyMarques and managing editor @nsanmartin printed and distributed a racist and anti-Semitic periodical published by a convicted fraudster EVERY FRIDAY for MONTHS inside their newspaper
"What kind of people are these Jews? They're always talking about the Holocaust, but have they already forgotten Kristallnacht, when Nazi thugs rampaged through Jewish shops across Germany? So do the BLM and Antifa, only the Nazis didn't steal; they only destroyed."
"Here [in the U.S.] they have lived in peace and prospered since the arrival of the first of them in the 18th century. They became the most prosperous immigrant group...until they were displaced from that position by the Cubans, who surpassed them..."
Opa-locka cop fired 5 years ago for wrong-way I-95 chase and crash that killed 4 tourists quietly got his job back and is now running the whole police department in one of Miami-Dade's most corrupt towns (the FBI once raided city hall) #BecauseMiamimiamiherald.com/news/local/com…
Last week, Opa-locka Police @ChiefJDobson was fired a day after Mayor @MatthewPigatt's cousin was pulled over and ticketed "for not wearing her seat belt, no proof of insurance or registration and because the tag on the silver Nissan she was driving was registered to a black BMW"
The firing also followed a report about the broken city's high crime rate: "Opa-locka police were not properly trained or evaluated, policies hadn’t been updated in 6 years and don’t meet basic standards...may point to a police organization beyond repair" miamiherald.com/news/local/com…
Florida man at Fort Myers Costco in "Running the World Since 1776" shirt flips out on elderly woman who asked him to wear a mask and man who defended her #BecauseFlorida (via @profjaffar)
This occurred at the Gulf Coast Town Center location on 6/27 and one of the customers targeted said: "To give Costco the credit, they escorted him out and made me wait inside and monitored him until he left and then they send someone with me to the care to make sure I'm okay."
UPDATE: The man has been identified as now former @TedToddAgency insurance salesman Daniel Maples. CEO @CharleyTodd says: "He absolutely does not represent our values and no longer works at our agency. We are working with Allstate to release a statement shortly. Wear a mask."
UPDATE: @MDPD_Director says he’s “shocked and angered” by the video and the officer is “relieved of duty.” He’s “initiated an investigation” with State Attorney @KathyFndzRundle, who’s famous for having never charged a cop for an on-duty killing in her entire 27 years in office.
More on Miami-Dade State Attorney Kathy Rundle: #DarrenRainey, a mentally ill inmate serving 2 years for drug possession, was locked in a shower for 2 hours by prison guards, who rigged the water to 160 degrees and boiled him to death. @KathyFndzRundle covered up his murder.