An investigation is underway in downtown Miami on Saturday after an officer fired their weapon at a suspect who became aggressive during an argument, police said.<\/p>\n
According to Miami Police, officers were told by a person that there was some type of argument happening at the Eve Hotel on\u00a0Biscayne Boulevard.<\/p>\n
Police said that the argument escalated and the person became aggressive towards officers.<\/p>\n
Officers then deployed a taser on the person and also used pepper spray in an attempt to subdue the person.<\/p>\n
At one point during the confrontation, an officer fired their weapon at the person, police said.<\/p>\n
Miami Police Chief Manny Morales said the person who was shot appeared to have non-life-threatening injuries, and one of the officers involved was injured and was taken to Jackson Memorial Hospital for treatment.<\/p>\n
The suspect’s identity was not released or the charges they are facing.<\/p>\n
The Florida Department of Law Enforcement will take over the investigation, which is standard whenever there is a police-involved shooting.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"An investigation is underway in downtown Miami on Saturday after an officer fired their weapon at a suspect…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":209680,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[123,125,124],"class_list":["post-209679","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-miami","tag-miami","tag-miami-headlines","tag-miami-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209679","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=209679"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209679\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/209680"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=209679"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=209679"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=209679"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}