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11-10-2011, 04:40 PM
Miami police chief: It’s time ‘to stop’ cop vs. cop tension with troopers
From MiamiHerald.com
Miami Police Chief Manuel Orosa addressed more than 40 of his officers early Thursday morning, speaking briefly on the tensions between his department and the Florida Highway Patrol.
Orosa met briefly with reporters after the 6 a.m. meeting at a police department auditorium.
“Whatever issues may be out there have to stop, and stop now,” he said after his meeting, which included roll call and a list of promotions.
Orosa acknowledged that a Miami police officer pulled over a trooper on the turnpike extension on Tuesday night — well outside city limits — but said there is no “tit-for-tat going on out there.”
The chief said his officer wanted to advise the trooper that he was speeding. The trooper said it was for “work-related” reasons,” Orosa said.
The fallout from an incident involving a trooper pursuing, pulling over and detaining a speeding Miami police officer at gunpoint has escalated in a war of words on Internet sites, and has continued to bubble over with the defacing of a trooper’s car with gallons of human feces.
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From MiamiHerald.com
Miami Police Chief Manuel Orosa addressed more than 40 of his officers early Thursday morning, speaking briefly on the tensions between his department and the Florida Highway Patrol.
Orosa met briefly with reporters after the 6 a.m. meeting at a police department auditorium.
“Whatever issues may be out there have to stop, and stop now,” he said after his meeting, which included roll call and a list of promotions.
Orosa acknowledged that a Miami police officer pulled over a trooper on the turnpike extension on Tuesday night — well outside city limits — but said there is no “tit-for-tat going on out there.”
The chief said his officer wanted to advise the trooper that he was speeding. The trooper said it was for “work-related” reasons,” Orosa said.
The fallout from an incident involving a trooper pursuing, pulling over and detaining a speeding Miami police officer at gunpoint has escalated in a war of words on Internet sites, and has continued to bubble over with the defacing of a trooper’s car with gallons of human feces.
Read more: http://www.miamiherald.com/2011/11/10/2 ... z1dJzNJucM (http://www.miamiherald.com/2011/11/10/2495347/miami-police-chief-fhp-flordida.html#ixzz1dJzNJucM)