DETHRONED THE JEOPARDY KING, HE’S FROM RIGHT HERE IN SOUTH FLORIDA.
>> LOCAL 10 NEWS STARTS RIGHT
NOW.
>> WHILE CHIEF ACEVEDO ENDED
UP NOT BEING A GOOD FIT FOR
OUR CITY, I CERTAINLY WISH HIM
AND HIS FAMILY THE BEST OF
LUCK IN THE FUTURE.
>> NOW AT 6:00, MIAMI MAYOR
FRANCIS SUAREZ BACKING THE
CITY MANAGER’S DECISION TO
REMOVE ART ACEVEDO AS THE
CITY’S TOP COP.
ACEVEDO’S JOB HAS BEEN ON THE
LINE FOR WEEKS NOW, BUT HE’S
ON HIS WAY OUT.
>> THE CHIEF PROMISING TO
FIGHT UNTIL THE VERY END.
LET’S GET RIGHT OVER TO LOCAL
10 NEWS REPORTER GLENNA
MILBERG.
GLENNA HAS BEEN COVERING THIS
SAGA SINCE THE VERY BEGINNING.
GLENNA?
>> AND SINCE THE VERY
BEGINNING, THIS WAS THE VERY
FIRST TIME WE HEARD MIAMI’S
MAYOR ACTUALLY TAKE A SIDE.
AND IT WAS NOT THE ONE OF THE
POLICE CHIEF HE WENT AND
BROUGHT IN FROM HOUSTON AS AN
OUTSIDER.
ART ACEVEDO NOW OUSTED FOR
BEING TOO MUCH OF AN OUTSIDER.
MIAMI’S MAYOR, FOR THE FIRST
TIME, SAYING HE DOES BACK THE
OUSTER OF THE HAND PICKED
NATIONALLY KNOWN POLICE CHIEF
HE BROUGHT IN FROM HOUSTON TO,
BY ALL ACCOUNTS, DO A LITTLE
SHAKING UP.
>> YOU WANT THESE SITUATIONS
ALWAYS TO WORK OUT.
AND THEY OBVIOUSLY HAVEN’T
UNDER THE STRUCTURE OF
GOVERNMENT THAT WE HAVE.
>> ART ACEVEDO DID SHAKE
THINGS UP, A BIG BRASH PERSONA
WITH FULFILL TER -- FEW FILTER
BUT COMMISSIONERS CAN’T FIRE
THE CHIEF, ONLY THAT CITY
MANAGER CAN.
AND MANAGER ART NORIEGA DID,
IN THIS MEMO, OUTLINING THE
VERY SAME CASE THOSE
COMMISSIONERS MADE OVER AN
INQUISITION LIKE TWO DAYS LAST
MONTH.
ESPECIALLY COMMISSIONER JOE
CAROLLO.
IF COMMISSIONERS ARE DRIVING
THIS TRAIN, IT’S DÉJÀ VU 21
YEARS AGO.
JOE CAROLLO WAS MIAMI MAYOR
THEN AND FURIOUS THE POLICE
CHIEF DEFIED HIM OVER A LITTLE
CUBAN MIGRANT BOY NAMED ELIAN
GONZALEZ.
>> I HEREBY REMOVE YOU FROM
YOUR POSITION AS CITY MANAGER.
>> NOW MANAGER ART NORIEGA HAS
NOT ANSWERED ANY QUESTIONS
ABOUT CHIEF ACEVEDO OR HIS
DECISION.
AND THE CHIEF ABOUT HIS
OUSTER, I PROMISE TO CONTINUE
TO FIGHT THE GOOD FIGHT TO RID
MIAMI POLICE DEPARTMENT OF THE
POLITICAL INTERFERENCE FROM
CITY HALL.
AND SO THE NEXT STEP LATER
THIS WEEK, THERE WILL BE THIS
REQUIRED HEARING WHERE THE
CHIEF GOES BEFORE THE
COMMISSION TO MAKE HIS CASE.
AS YOU HEARD, 3 OF THE 5
COMMISSIONERS ARE ALREADY WELL
ON THE RECORD.
AND SO THERE WILL BE THOSE
FIREWORKS LATER ON THIS WEEK.
LOOKS LIKE THURSDAY-FRIDAY
WILL BE THAT.
AND THEN REMEMBER THERE’S ALSO
THAT MEMO, THE PREEMPTIVE
STRIKE THE CHIEF WROTE
ACCUSING THE THREE
COMMISSIONERS OF CORRUPTION,
OF INTERFERING IN POLICE WORK.
THAT MEMO IS STILL OUT THERE.
THOSE THINGS WILL BE
INVESTIGATED AND IT KIND OF
SETS UP THE CHIEF AS A
WHISTLEBLOWER STATUS IF HE
WANTS IT.
I’M GLENNA MILBERG LIVE IN
MIAMI TONIGHT, LOCAL 10 NEWS.
>> THE CHIEF DID HAVE THEIR
SUPPORT.
TODAY THEY’RE TELLING ME THEY
FOUND SOME OF HIS REFORM IDEAS
TO BE INNOVATIVE AND THEY’RE
HOPING THOSE IDEAS LIVE ON.
>> WITH THIS CHIEF, IT FELT
LIKE A BRAND NEW START.
>> SERGEANT STANLEY IS THE
PRESIDENT OF MIAMI’S
HISTORICALLY BLACK POLICE
ASSOCIATION.
>> THE CHIEF WAS BROUGHT TO
OFFER MUCH NEEDED REFORM.
>> HE WAS A PANELIST
INTERVIEWING CANDIDATES FOR
POLICE CHIEF PRIOR TO THE
MAYOR’S SURPRISE ANNOUNCEMENT
THAT THE CITY MANAGER HIRE
THEN POLICE CHIEF ART ACEVEDO.
BOTH MEN DESCRIBING THE FAST
MOVING EVENTS LEADING TO
ACEVEDO’S SUSPENSION.
>> IT WENT FROM 0-100.
ACEVEDO’S COMMUNITY POLICING
AND POLICE REFORM AGENDA
RESONATED.
>> I AM TOUGH ON BAD POLICING AND I’M NOT GONNA APOLOGIZE FOR IT.
>> HOPES TO ADDRESS SOME OF
THOSE STRUCTURAL AND
INSTITUTIONAL OLD BOY
NETWORKS.
>> YOU BROUGHT HIM HERE.
DO YOU WORRY ABOUT WHAT WE SAW
UNFOLD BEING A CHILLING EFFECT
ON THE BROADER CONCEPTS OF
POLICE REFORM?
>> EVERYONE MAY NOT BE THE
RIGHT FIT FOR EVERY
ORGANIZATION.
BUT IF THE IDEAS ARE SOLID,
THE IDEAS SHOULD OUTLAST THE
PERSON.
>> I ALSO HEARD TODAY AN
EXPRESSED HOPE THAT THERE IS
MORE CLARITY ON THE HIRING
PROCESS FOR THE NEXT CHIEF OF