Four Florida police officers have been indicted for manslaughter in the deaths of a UPS driver and a passerby during a 2019 shootout with suspects who hijacked the UPS driver.

A grand jury indicted Miami-Dade County officer Rodolfo Mirabal, 39, on two counts of manslaughter with a firearm in connection with the Dec. 5, 2019, deaths of UPS driver Frank Ordonez, 27, and Richard Cutshaw, 70, who was driving nearby, Broward County prosecutors said on Saturday.

Officers Jose Mateo, 32, Richard Santiesteban, 33, and Leslie Lee, 57, were indicted for manslaughter with a firearm for Ordonez’s death, but they are not facing charges in Cutshaw’s death.

Mirabal and Mateo still work for Miami-Dade police, while Lee retired three years ago and Santiesteban was terminated, according to the Miami Herald.

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None of the officers were charged in the deaths of hijackers – and cousins – Lamar Alexander, 41, and Ronnie Jerome Hill, 41.

The officers surrendered on Friday and Saturday to the Broward Sheriff’s Office after the indictments were issued more than a week ago. They were released without bail.

If convicted, the officers face a maximum sentence of 30 years.

Broward State Attorney Harold Pryor said the years-long state investigation and the months-long grand jury proceedings were necessary “to ensure we get answers for the victims’ families and the community.”

“Deciding whether to use deadly force is among the most serious and consequential decisions a police officer can make,” Pryor said in a statement. “We understand that these decisions are often made during intense and uncertain circumstances.”

Miami-Dade police previously said in a statement that it “respects the legal process.”

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The police officers have not been charged in the deaths of the two hijackers. (Taimy Alvarez/South Florida Sun-Sentinel via AP)

The union that represents the officers criticized the indictment last week.

“We’re extremely disappointed that after almost five years, these officers are finding themselves indicted for something they had seconds to decide,” South Florida Police Benevolent Association president Steadman Stahl said in a statement. “It sends a chilling effect to officers in Broward County.”

The shootout took place during rush hour on a street in suburban Fort Lauderdale, Florida, following a pursuit by several police agencies.

About 20 law enforcement officers were at the scene, although it remains unclear how many fired their guns at the hijackers, who had been shooting at officers during the pursuit.

Alexander and Hill allegedly robbed the Regent Jewelers store in the Miami suburb of Coral Gables and were firing shots inside the store when officers arrived. A store employee was wounded during the incident after being struck in the head by a ricocheted bullet.

The robbers fled the store and hijacked Ordonez as he was delivering packages nearby. The pair then led officers on a lengthy chase into southern Broward County, firing at them during the pursuit while Ordonez was still inside the van.

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Both of the hijackers, the UPS driver and a passerby were all killed during the December 2019 shootout. (Charles Trainor Jr./Miami Herald/Tribune News Service via Getty Images)

The suspects eventually stopped in a middle lane at a busy intersection when they were trapped behind a wall of vehicles at a red light.

The shootout began as officers ran between cars while making their way toward the van. Alexander, Hill and Ordonez were killed inside the van while Cutshaw was found dead in his car.

Investigators have not disclosed if Ordonez and Cutshaw were shot by police, the suspects or both.

It is unusual for Florida law enforcement officers to be charged in an on-duty killing, with only three such cases in the past 40 years. Of those, only one officer has been convicted.

The Associated Press contributed to this report.

A U.S. district court in Kentucky on Monday ordered the implementation of the Biden administration’s new Title IX protections halted after a West Virginia girl and a Christian Educators Association International sued after a transgender teen competed on a middle school team.

The new injunction applies to Ohio, Kentucky, Tennessee, Indiana, Virginia and West Virginia.

“Nonetheless, despite society’s enduring recognition of biological differences between the sexes, as well as an individual’s basic right to bodily privacy, the Final Rule mandates that schools permit biological men into women’s intimate spaces, and women into men’s, within the educational environment based entirely on a person’s subjective gender identity,” the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Kentucky said in its ruling. 

“This result is not only impossible to square with Title IX but with the broader guarantee of education protection for all students.”

A federal judge blocked Biden’s Title IX rule in Louisiana, Mississippi, Montana and Idaho last week.

Tennessee v. Cardona centers around the case of B.P.J., Becky Pepper-Jackson – a track athlete in West Virginia whose representatives overturned the Saves Women’s Sports Act in the state back in April.

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President Biden’s Title IX rewrite was halted in a few more states on Monday. (Alexander Pohl/NurPhoto via Getty Images)

Pepper-Jackson at the time was the only transgender girl identified by advocates and the opposition as wanting to play on a girls’ team in West Virginia. Pepper-Jackson had been competing with and against girls since entering middle school and has been taking puberty blockers since age 13.

In April, five West Virginia middle school athletes refused to compete against Pepper-Jackson in an event.

Alliance Defending Freedom, which filed the lawsuit on behalf of the Christian Educators Association International and the aggrieved 15-year-old girl, wrote in its suit that 300 female athletes had been displaced in three years in discus and shot put.

Riley Gaines, an OutKick contributor who hosts the “Gaines for Girls” podcast and is the director of the Riley Gaines Center at the Leadership Institute, issued a statement on the ruling.

“This is a huge win,” Gaines said. “I don’t think we would have seen this kind of decisive action 2 years ago. The gender ideology house of cards is crumbling. And it’s crumbling fast.

“I hope every generation following mine has the same opportunity to compete and succeed that I was fortunate to have for most of my athletic career. But if it’s up to Biden and the progressive Democrats, they won’t.”

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Sen. Tim Scott of South Carolina, a top ally and potential running mate of former President Trump, is making the case for the presumptive Republican presidential nominee.

Scott, who ran unsuccessfully for the 2024 nomination but remains a very popular figure in the GOP, on Wednesday convenes a one-day summit that is drawing top figures in the Republican Party as well as mega-donors who have yet to commit to Trump’s White House campaign.

The all afternoon and evening gathering of Great Opportunity Policy, a Scott-aligned non-profit group that supports his political and policy agendas, will also double as a fundraiser for the former president as Trump enters his final phases in his search for a running mate.

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The senator helped organize a major fundraiser for Trump earlier this year ahead of the South Carolina primary, and he attended a top-dollar fundraiser in New York City for the former president last month. Additionally, Scott, the only Black Republican in the Senate, earlier this month launched a $14 million effort to help the former president win over Black and other non-White working class voters that Scott argues could be the deciding factor in November’s elections.

On Wednesday, he will be making the case for Trump to a number of top donors and billionaires, including Ken Griffin, the founder of the Citadel hedge fund, who spent tens of millions during the 2024 Republican primaries in support of Trump’s rivals, and hedge fund executive Bill Ackman of Pershing Square Capital, who helped finance the campaigns of GOP presidential contender Nikki Haley and Democrat turned independent Robert F. Kennedy Jr., and also supported GOP candidates former New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie, North Dakota Gov. Doug Burgum, and biotech entrepreneur Vivek Ramaswamy.

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When asked what his message is to top donors who have yet to fully commit to the former president, Scott told Fox News Digital last month that “it is in the best interest of the United States of America to have four more years of President Donald Trump. It is in the best interest of our economy to have four more years of Donald Trump.”

“The one thing you can discern as a top donor and Republican and, frankly, a strong business person is that a strong economy makes all things possible,” 

Then-GOP presidential candidate Sen. Tim Scott of South Carolina speaks with members of the New Hampshire Federation of Republican Women at an event at Saint Anselm College’s New Hampshire Institute of Politics, on May 25, 2023 in Manchester, New Hampshire. (Fox News )

Scott, who was one of roughly a dozen Republican candidates who unsuccessfully challenged Trump for the 2024 GOP presidential nomination before ending his White House bid late last year, endorsed the former president in January.

The conservative senator from South Carolina over the past five months has become a top Trump surrogate and is considered to be among a small group of contenders on the short list as Trump’s running mate on the 2024 Republican ticket.

Political analysts say that Scott, as a Black evangelical, could help the former president make a sizable dent in President Biden’s lead with minority voters.

Republican presidential candidate former President Trump, right, looks to Sen. Tim Scott, R-S.C., during a Fox News Channel town hall on Tuesday, Feb. 20, 2024 in Greenville, South Carolina. (AP Photo/Chris Carlson)

His campaign trail efforts on behalf of Trump appear to have impressed the former president.

“You are a much better candidate for me than you are for yourself,” Trump has said to Scott a handful of times.

However, pundits question whether Scott’s uneven debate appearances during the Republican presidential primaries could be an issue for him if he faces off against Vice President Kamala Harris this summer in a general election running mate debate.

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