Tuesday night, a Miami police officer pulled over a state trooper near the Homestead extension of Florida’s Turnpike – well outside city limits, and for no apparent reason. On Saturday, a different trooper’s car was smothered with pounds of feces in the driveway of his Miami home.
Fallout from the recent, controversial trooper vs. Miami cop incident appears to have crossed the line from verbal volleying to outright vandalism. Yet missing in action amidst all the retaliatory fervor: top bosses at the Miami Police Department and the Florida Highway Patrol, who have refused to talk publicly about the escalating hostility.
Is it time for the leadership to speak out? At least one former Miami police chief thinks so.
