Work by Panmela Castro of woman held in headlock was removed after managers at events space told her police complained
A mural depicting police abuse in a Rio de Janeiro favela has been removed from the walls of a Miami events space after local police reportedly complained.
The work, by the Brazilian artist Panmela Castro, showed a black woman being held in a headlock, with the caption: “Woman who filmed abused [sic] by police officers is beaten and arrested.”
Continue reading...US president says media and Democrats forced him to scrap plan to award himself the opportunity to host summit
Donald Trump has been forced into a humiliating climbdown over plans to host the G7 meeting at his own luxury resort following a political outcry.
The US president announced in a Saturday night tweet that he had reversed his decision and would seek an alternative venue to host world leaders next June.
Continue reading...Donald Trump has insisted he is not seeking to profit from the US presidency after revealing a resort he owns in Miami is in the running to host the next G7 summit in 2020. Trump claimed it had cost him '$3bn to $5bn' to be president and suggested hosting the event at his Trump National Doral Miami resort would not make him any money, before reeling off a list of facts about the property
Continue reading...From fashionistas and retirees, drag queens and bodybuilders, to waiters and wanderers, British photographer Barry Lewis captured the colourful characters of Miami Beach in the late 80s and early 90s in black and white on the cusp of its revival. After two decades of decline caused by drugs, corruption and violence the coastal strip had come back to life and the party was just getting started.
Continue reading...Plea deal, involving attorney who became Trump’s labor secretary, saw financier avoid severe penalty for abusing girls
The justice department has opened an investigation into federal prosecutors’ handling of a plea deal in which a wealthy, politically connected Florida financier avoided potentially severe penalties for sexually abusing teenage girls in favor of a relatively light state conviction.
The department’s Office of Professional Responsibility wrote in a letter Wednesday to the Republican senator Ben Sasse, of Nebraska, that it would examine whether professional misconduct occurred in the highly publicized case of Jeffrey Epstein. The letter cited a series of recent articles by the Miami Herald that focused new attention on how the deal came about.
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