Early Tuesday morning, Miami-Dade Police responded to a Brownsville crime scene. They found two victims of a drive-by shooting and 88 bullet casings left for homicide detectives to clean up.
That same day, the Miami-Dade Board of County Commissioners met to discuss a multimillion-dollar gun violence prevention plan created by Mayor Daniella Levine Cava s office.
Only a day earlier, violence also erupted in South Dade, as officers rushed to respond to a domestic-related murder-suicide at an apartment complex in Homestead. Desmond Owens, 26-year-old victim of the El Mula Banquet Hall shooting.(Courtesy of the Owens Family)
The urgency to deploy $7.2 million through the mayorâs Peace and Prosperity Plan comes while Miami has been overwhelmed by bloodbaths for nearly two consecutive weeks, leaving at least 13 people dead and more than 40 injured.
A recent mass shooting during a rapper’s album release party was the focus of the conversation during Wednesday’s Miami-Dade County Black Affairs Advisory Board meeting at the Stephen P. Clark Government Center in downtown Miami.
May 26 Phillip Agnew's 2015 trip to Palestine forever changed his view of conflict in the Middle East. There, the prominent Miami-based social justice advocate saw what he describes as "cold, calculating racism and ethnic cleansing" by the Israeli government: checkpoints that divided mosques; markets with overhead netting to protect Palestinians from having feces or urine thrown on them; a .