Category: Fort Lauderdale
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Three BSO deputies shot a black man dead in a mental hospital in 2018; We still don’t know why
By Dan Christensen
FloridaBulldog.org
When Jarvis Randall was airlifted to Broward Health North, he’d been shot up so thoroughly by a trio of Broward Sheriff’s deputies that the emergency room doctor who pronounced Randall dead noted in his report that the cause was “multiple gun shots too numerous to count.” -
Complaint: Fort Lauderdale commissioner bullied homeless into leaving their camp
By Noreen Marcus
FloridaBulldog.org
An activist says a Fort Lauderdale city commissioner used bullying tactics to force homeless people to abandon their tent community on public property. -
Fort Lauderdale doctors: Cancel Las Olas Art Fair or watch COVID-19 casualties climb
By Noreen Marcus
FloridaBulldog.org
A group of Broward County doctors is trying to convince city and county authorities to cancel this weekend’s Las Olas Art Fair, warning it could turn into a COVID-19 superspreader event. -
Fort Lauderdale’s sewer calamity blamed on budget strategy that diverted funds meant for fixes
By Noreen Marcus
FloridaBulldog.org
State regulators did what they could to prevent the Fort Lauderdale sewer mess that experts predicted years before a major pipeline sprang leaks in December–and kept on spewing waste for almost three months. But Fort Lauderdale failed to protect itself. Now, in the middle of a pandemic, the city is fighting a costly rearguard action to restore the sewage system, rescue marine life and preserve clean water. -
Broward judge won’t block Florida Panthers 50-year lease at Holiday Park
By Dan Christensen
FloridaBulldog.org
A Broward judge Tuesday dismissed a legal challenge that sought to block Fort Lauderdale’s controversial deal with the owners of the Florida Panthers, giving them control of a chunk of Holiday Park, including War Memorial Auditorium, for 50 years. -
Amid nationwide racial unrest, renewed interest in Broward’s most horrific miscarriage of justice
By Dan Christensen
FloridaBulldog.org
For more than a decade it’s been publicly apparent that Jerry Frank Townsend, a black man, was framed by Broward Sheriff’s Office, Fort Lauderdale and Miami police detectives who coerced him into confessing to nearly two dozen sex murders of African-American women and children that he didn’t do.
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