Art Acevedo's honeymoon is over already in Miami! Compares commissioners' actions to Cuba regime!

[Lisa0825]

Miami police chief compares actions of some commissioners to Cuba’s Communist regime

On the eve of an emergency commission meeting that threatens to shorten his already brief tenure in Miami, Police Chief Art Acevedo broke a brief silence and penned a scathing eight-page memo that is likely to play a big part in Monday’s showdown.

The chief, sworn in only last April — and who has spoken very little publicly since Monday’s meeting was set to address a litany of issues with his performance — wrote that the majority of commissioners were interfering with an internal investigation into a well-liked Sergeant-At-Arms he relieved of duty.

He also said that a second-in-command post he filled with a former co-worker from Houston was eliminated by commissioners out of spite and that he had contacted the U.S. Department of Justice to review the city’s internal affairs process and some questionable uses of force by officers.

[bluecollar2]

1. Somebody had to say it...

Acevedo just calling out the obvious. Miami's Cuban community needs to look inwards and decide whether political corruption is acceptable or not.

Not just at a city level but at a county level also.

The entire county is a banana republic.

[Lisa0825]

2. True, but they just may take him out for this.

He's from Cuba too, but not from the Miami environment. It will be interesting to see if this results in any independent investigation, or just swept under the rug.

[bluecollar2]

4. He will be taken out for this.

Bigotry and racism will be in full view here.

This is just the tip of the iceberg.

Joe Carollo and his ilk are a stain on representative government.

[marble falls]

3. I think he was a good chief in Austin. He was pretty tough on police violence. He fired cops.