Acevedo is leaving the 5,400-person department in Houston the fourth-largest in the country which he s led since 2016 to run the 1,400-person department in Miami and is its fifth police chief in the last decade.
Over the past year, the 56-year-old Acevedo - who is a registered Republican - has drawn national spotlight for marching with protestors after the death of George Floyd and spoke out against Trump while speaking at the Democratic National Convention. You better have a warrior s heart because there s a lot of evil people and evil doers in this world, Acevedo said. We have to have a mindset of a guardian, but when those shots start being fired, we need to have the heart of a warrior.
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