FORMER JUDGE ARRESTED

UPDATE: MIAMI FIRES CITY OF MIAMI POLICE DEPARTMENT CHIEF SIX MONTHS AFTER HIRING HIM AND CALLING HIM "THE MICHAEL JORDAN OF POLICE CHIEFS "

  We broke the story yesterday, on Twitter (@justicebuilding) to ace Herald Scribe @Davidovalle305 who wrote the story and graciously gave us credit for our scoop. 

The sordid details of a Miami condo/neighbor hating neighbor contretemps that naturally ended with a gun being pulled (this is Miami after all) are listed on the blog post yesterday.

"Hey, I left my phone in my cousin's apartment. Can you let me back in?"

MM:  (pulls out firearm) "Go ahead punk, I know what you're thinking. Did I fire five shots or six. So, are you feeling lucky? Go ahead, try and get back into the condo and make my day.  

The question we have today is ...who had a worse Monday? The former judge who was arrested, or former Las Vegas head coach Jon Gruden who was fired after a trove of racist, sexist and homophobic emails that would not be tolerated anywhere except in POTUS 45's White House, were released. 

Before the NY Times published the story about the numerous offensive emails, we were pondering what should be the response to the one racist email where Gruden referred to the head of the NFL player's union, who is an African American man, with a very offensive racist trope. 

Are things that bad? Can someone not like a man, and say why he doesn't like him without making reference to hundred year old offensive racial stereotypes? Are we that blind to racism that we never see things like this, and are shocked when they are revealed? Meanwhile the comments from many African American men were that they were not surprised to see a man referred to that way. And yet  we were shocked. 

It is troubling to think about how much we are missing. 

Speaking of racist tropes, City of Miami Police Chief Art Acevedo, who was hired as the Michael Jordan or Tiger Woods of Police Chiefs, WAS FIRED ON TUESDAY MORNING is about to be suspended and fired because of a rant he made about the City of Miami Police Department being run by the "Cuban Mafia." 

There's a Cuban Mafia? Are they bigger that US Steel (GFII reference). What's Spanish for Cosa Nostra? 

We are soooo out of the loop. 

Here are the lessons from this weekend.  Treat everyone as you would want to be treated, including a person who has been locked out of a condo without his phone and needs to get back in for a moment. And our advice to the former judge? Simple......

Leave the gun, take the pastelitos.