{"id":249321,"date":"2026-04-28T08:42:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-28T08:42:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/249321\/"},"modified":"2026-04-28T08:42:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-28T08:42:08","slug":"brickbat-miami-vice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/249321\/","title":{"rendered":"Brickbat: Miami Vice"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">A Miami\u2013Dade County sheriff&#8217;s deputy <a data-yga=\"{\" ylinkelement=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/news\/world\/americas\/miami-dade-mayor-reporter-threat-b2962992.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"elm:link;elmt:article_link;slk:threatened;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">threatened<\/a> to arrest a local TV reporter for asking Mayor Daniella Levine Cava a question at a beach and bay cleanup event in a public park. Jeff Weinsier of WPLG Local 10 News wanted to ask the mayor about a series of electric buses that cost taxpayers more than $60 million were taken out of service because they kept breaking down. But as Weinsier approached the mayor, Deputy Lester Aguilar stepped in and pushed him, saying if he didn&#8217;t back off, &#8220;You will go to jail.&#8221; Weinsier said he approached the mayor at the event because her office had refused to respond to interview requests about the buses.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The post <a data-yga=\"{\" ylinkelement=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/reason.com\/2026\/04\/28\/brickbat-miami-vice\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"elm:link;elmt:article_link;slk:Brickbat: Miami Vice;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Brickbat: Miami Vice<\/a> appeared first on <a data-yga=\"{\" ylinkelement=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/reason.com\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"elm:link;elmt:article_link;slk:Reason.com;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Reason.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A Miami\u2013Dade County sheriff&#8217;s deputy threatened to arrest a local TV reporter for asking Mayor Daniella Levine Cava&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":249322,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[109254,109253,123,125,124,14704,373],"class_list":["post-249321","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-miami","tag-electric-buses","tag-jeff-weinsier","tag-miami","tag-miami-headlines","tag-miami-news","tag-miami-vice","tag-miami-dade-county"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/249321","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=249321"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/249321\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/249322"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=249321"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=249321"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=249321"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}