City commissioners have called a meeting for September 27 to question Acevedo about his performance and potentially debate his future status on the job.
In the months since he has been in charge of Miami's police force, Acevedo has courted controversy, committing a series of blunders and contentious professional decisions that earned him negative attention from some members of the city government.
Now, city commissioners have called a meeting for September 27 to question Acevedo about his performance and potentially debate his future status on the job. Miami Police Chief Art Acevedo is now facing scrutiny from city commissioners after his hiring was praised earlier in the year. Above, Acevedo speaks at a press conference on March 15, 2021, in Miami, Florida."I'll be damned if I'm going to let a new transplant come here and do whatever he wants," Miami Commissioner Joe Carollo said, referring to Acevedo's recent move from Texas at a meeting Monday night."Each one of us are duly elected.
Acevedo's most recent gaff angered city officials when he told a group of roughly 100 police officers during morning roll call that it's like the Miami police department was run by the"Cuban Mafia." The term"Cuban Mafia" was used in the past by Fidel Castro in an attempt to make Cuban exiles look like criminals for trying to escape or opposing the dictatorship. Most of Miami's city commissioners either have family members who have suffered under Cuba's communist regime or are Cuban exiles themselves, according to reporting by
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