Miami, FL
Miami-Dade mayor joins Wynwood protest in support of abortion protections
WYNWOOD, Fla. – Miami-Dade County Mayor Daniella Levine Cava joined a protest on Friday in Miami’s Wynwood neighborhood. It was her means of displaying that she stands in opposition to the Supreme Court docket’s ruling that removed the constitutional protections for abortion.
The mayor was among the many dozens who shouted: “Abortion rights are underneath assault! What will we do? Arise! Battle again!” The march took over a number of blocks.
Levine Cava stated one technique to combat is to vote for candidates who consider girls’s proper to protected and authorized abortion is a basic human proper that ought to have authorized protections.
“It’s devastating and clearly thank goodness, younger girls throughout this nation are waking up,” Levine Cava stated in regards to the protests on Friday nationwide.
Michelle Isgut, 33, stated she was protesting as a result of she couldn’t consider the ruling. Justice Samuel Alito wrote within the last opinion issued Friday that Roe and Deliberate Parenthood v. Casey, the 1992 resolution higher often called Roe vs. Wade, was improper and needed to be overturned.
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Justices Clarence Thomas, Neil Gorsuch, Brett Kavanaugh, and Amy Coney Barrett joined Alito. Chief Justice John Roberts didn’t be a part of. Justices Stephen Breyer, Sonia Sotomayor, and Elena Kagan dissented.
The choice comes only a day after the Supreme Court docket dominated to strike down a New York legislation requiring a must get a license to hold. Thomas wrote the Structure protects the “proper to hold a handgun for self-defense.” Within the dissent, Breyer wrote, “there have already been 277 reported mass shootings — a median of multiple per day.”
“For SCOTUS to problem a ruling on gun rights saying that they’ll’t depart to the states to manage, however then to show round like days, hours later and attempt to regulate my physique like this — It’s unbelievable,” Isgut stated throughout the protest in Wynwood.
Some protesters expressed their opposition to Gov. Ron DeSantis since he signed a invoice to implement a statewide 15-week ban on abortions. The group chanted, “Vote him out!”
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Nikki Fried, Florida’s twelfth Commissioner of Agriculture and Shopper Providers, was additionally on the protest. She is campaigning to be the Democratic candidate to run in opposition to DeSantis, however Charlie Crist is within the lead.
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Miami, FL
Miami Police lieutenant arrested on domestic violence charge
A Miami Police lieutenant has been arrested on a domestic violence charge after he allegedly spit at and slapped his wife.
Lt. Thomas L. Carroll, 47, was arrested Saturday on a battery – domestic violence charge, an arrest report said.
According to the report, Carroll and his wife were involved in an argument when Carroll allegedly spit at her around 10 times.
He also allegedly slapped her twice in the face, the report said.
The wife ran out of the house and called police. The report said she didn’t have visible injuries but added that two witnesses corroborated her allegations.
Thomas was booked into jail and later released. Attorney information wasn’t available.
In a statement, Assistant Chief of Police Armando Aguilar said Carroll was relieved of duty pending further investigation.
“The Miami Police Department is committed to serving victims of domestic violence and holding the perpetrators of such crimes accountable for their actions. When acts of domestic violence are perpetrated by law enforcement officers, they are especially disheartening, as they represent a breach of the sacred trust placed in us by the people we serve,” Aguilar said in a statement. “We wish to thank the victim and witnesses in this case for coming forward. We are committed to ensuring that a thorough investigation is conducted and that the victim receives all necessary support throughout this process.”
Aguilar said Carroll was at one point an assistant chief of police but has been a lieutenant in the field operations division since 2023.
Miami, FL
Miami Marlins acquire top prospects INF Starlyn Caba and OF Emaarion Boyd from Philadelphia Phillies
Caba, 19, hit .228 (61×268) with a .385 on-base percentage, 10 extra-base
Miami, FL
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