Police Chief Carlos Noriega Meets With Miami Beach's Gay Leaders Over ACLU Suit, Promises Changes
Miami Beach Police Chief Carlos Noriega met with gay leaders earlier this afternoon at city hall, promising changes one week after the ACLU announced a suit charging that Beach cops regularly harass gay men in Flamingo Park.
"With the exception of the case that re-emerged last week, I have not had an incident like this cross my desk in three years," he told the meeting of the LGBT business outreach committee. "I didn't see this coming or realize this was a problem [with the gay community]."
The ACLU suit, which you can read more about here, is on behalf of a former Beach resident named Harold Strickland, who was arrested after calling 911 to report that cops were beating up another gay man near Flamingo Park.
Some members of the committee were skeptical of Noriega's assertion that Strickland's case wasn't indicitave of a larger problem in the MBPD.
Chip Arndt, a committee member, read from a blog post by a traveler who said he was arrested and harassed after sitting on the beach with his boyfriend. Other committee members mentioned that their friends and neighbors had similar problems.





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