Miami, FL
Memo sheds light on events leading to North Miami city manager’s firing
NORTH MIAMI, Fla. – Following a 3-1 termination vote Tuesday night, it’s still unclear why a group of North Miami city councilmembers voted to fire City Manager Rasha Cameau. But Local 10 News has obtained a memo from the now-ousted top administrator that sheds light on her forced departure.
Residents packed Tuesday night’s special city council meeting in an attempt to save Cameau’s job. They credit her with cleaning house and turning the city around.
“You run (the city) like a banana republic,” resident Mary Brown told councilmembers.
Vice Mayor Mary Estimé-Irvin and councilmembers Pierre Frantz Charles and Kassandra Timothe were the deciding votes. Longtime Councilman Scott Galvin voted against firing Cameau.
Mayor Alix Desulme, who wasn’t present at the meeting, had previously expressed opposition to firing Cameau, calling the passage of a motion to consider her firing in April a “sad day” for the city.
Residents booed the council following the vote.
None of the councilmembers have elaborated on why they wanted Cameau out.
Residents point to Cameau declining councilmembers’ requests for unbudgeted money to spend, including for a festival, as she righted the city’s financial decline.
Local 10 News has learned that Cameau, seeing the writing on the wall, memorialized the signs in a memo, in which she described herself as “busy putting out fires.”
The memo is titled “Re: Events That Led Up to My Termination.”
She documented efforts to hold the public works director accountable for failures with a multi-million dollar water project, only to have councilmembers backdoor her to spare him, violating the city charter.
They got outsiders to intervene: one of them was a longtime city lobbyist who claimed people thought her actions were racially-motivated.
She wrote that she was told that “the word on the street is that I am firing Haitians and replacing them with ‘blans,’” the Creole term for non-Haitians.
Cameau is a Haitian-American.
Read the memo:
The council appointed Anna-Bo Emmanuel as interim city manager.
That raised even more questions. If councilmembers collaborated behind the scenes, it would violate Florida’s Sunshine Laws.
Following Tuesday night’s vote, Cameau told local media outlets, “I’ve been a public servant for over 20 years and I will be there to serve the public again.”
Cameau is expected to request a public hearing on her termination, which she is entitled to.
Residents are discussing recalls of the councilmembers, as well as lawsuits.
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OXFORD, Ohio (WXIX) – A Miami University student received probation for charges stemming from an incident outside an Oxford bar in November.
A jury previously found Devin Johnson guilty of assault and resisting arrest but did not find him guilty of underage drinking, according to the Butler County Clerk’s Office.
Johnson was sentenced to 180 days suspended jail time for each charge and then also given one year of probation for his conviction on assault and resisting arrest, court records show. Two other charges, underage possession and criminal trespassing, were dropped.
Johnson and Officer Matthew Blauvelt were the focus of a TikTok video that went viral and police used in their investigation following an incident outside Brick Street Bar on Nov. 18, 2023.
The 20-year-old Johnson was hit several times by Blauvelt outside the bar after employees had pulled him from the establishment and held him on the ground.
Police say Johnson had sneaked into the bar underage and refused to leave, which led to a struggle between him and employees and law enforcement to be called.
Security video of the arrest went viral after it was posted online by a family member, which prompted Blauvelt to be placed on leave while the incident was investigated.
Attorneys David Williamson and Jonathan Hollingsworth were hired as special counsel to review Johnson’s arrest.
Blauvelt’s actions were justified, Williamson and Hollingsworth concluded.
The Butler County Sheriff’s Office and prosecutor’s office also found Blauvelt’s actions reasonable in earlier reviews.
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The Miami Heat made one of the best decisions in franchise history five years ago by accepting a sign-and-trade for Jimmy Butler, but the same can’t be said about the Philadelphia 76ers.
The Sixers made the decision to retain forward Tobias Harris rather than Butler, who has led the Heat to multiple NBA Finals appearances. Meanwhile, Harris has not lived up to expectations, averaging 17.6 points and 6.6 rebounds on 48.8 percent shooting in six seasons with the team. It’s clear Philadelphia’s front office is feeling some regret about their decision, according to The Philadelphia Inquirer’s Keith Pompey.
“Talking to my sources, the 76ers’ ownership group—they kinda regret what they did five years ago [in trading Jimmy Butler], and they see the success that he’s had,” Pompey said on the ‘Locked on 76ers’ podcast. “And they realize… he could be in their eyes, the missing piece, and they’re willing to give him the money he wants.”
While Heat team president Pat Riley shot down the idea of trading Butler in early May, contract disagreements could lead to a change of scenery. The 34-year-old forward’s familiarity with the Sixers’ organization could play an important factor in a trade. Butler and Joel Embiid’s time together ended on a devastating note, as Kawhi Leonard nailed a Game 7 game-winner on the path to their title.
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