Thread by @BillyCorben

In an 8-page memo, @MiamiPD Chief @ArtAcevedo accuses Commissioners @JoeCarolloNow @Manolo4Miami and @alexDLPmiami of a "pattern of official misconduct" including attempting to improperly influence an ongoing and confidential internal affairs investigation #BecauseMiami

https://twitter.com/BecauseMiami/status/1442247314517733383

Chief Acevedo writes that @JoeCarolloNow has attempted to misuse @MiamiPD as his "personal enforcer against anyone he perceives as offense" including peaceful protestors he calls "agitators" and "communists" #BecauseMiami miamiherald.com/latest-news/ar…

According to Chief @ArtAcevedo, @MiamiPD has “wasted untold hours investigating business establishments because of the improper political influence of @JoeCarolloNow and @alexDLPmiami." #BecauseMiami

Chief says he's "uncovered a pattern of unlawful use of force by officers, and in some instances the chain of command has covered [it] up," but Commissioners @JoeCarolloNow @Manolo4Miami and @alexDLPmiami are interfering with his efforts to reform the department. #BecauseMiami

"If I or @MiamiPD give in to the improper actions described herein, as a Cuban immigrant, I and my family might as well have remained in communist Cuba, because @CityofMiami and MPD would be no better than the repressive regime and the police state we left behind." #BecauseMiami

Legal observer says, "Acevedo handed @FBImiamiFL and @thejusticedept a blueprint to indict 3 sitting city commissioners. If I were @JoeCarolloNow @alexDLPmiami and @Manolo4Miami, I'd lawyer up and exercise my right to remain silent at tomorrow's commission meeting." #BecauseMiami

Acevedo: "After 5 months of observing these 2 commissioners and the negative impact they are having on MPD and our business community, coupled with their unlawful obstruction of the IAD investigation, I feel compelled to memorize & report their unlawful and retaliatory conduct.”

Pobrecito, Chief @ArtAcevedo. He left his job as the top cop in the fifth largest police department in the U.S. to come to this incestuous cesspool of corruption and, five months later, he's reporting city commissioners to the feds. #BecauseMiami

Miami commissioners will likely commit and/or confess to crimes in a public meeting tomorrow discussing @ArtAcevedo. Because we have no competent corruption prosecutions here, they believe (rightfully) that they can get away with it. It will be an epic shitshow. #BecauseMiami