Wow.

Just WOW!

What a performance!

North Miami City Manager Larry Spring, Assistant Chief Larry Juriga and City Attorney Jeff Cazeau deserve a standing ovation for the Dog & Pony Show they put on last night at the Griffing Community Center.

Let’s all give them all a great big round of applause!

When VotersOpinion broke the story that city officials were hiding documents provided to us by Police Chief Gary Eugene, and the press started snooping around, Larry, Larry and Jeff had to quickly cover their asses.

So they scrambled at last night’s Community Council Forum to explain themselves.

Because transparency.

Or something.

Unfortunately for the city’s residents, the only “transparent” message given last night was that North Miami is even more corrupt than anyone imagined.

But we’re getting ahead of ourselves.  Let’s take a few steps back and recap.

When Gary Eugene was appointed as Chief of the North Miami Police Department, gone were the hoped for promotions of a handful of rogue cops who had been desperately angling for an opportunity to move up the food chain.  After all, with Chief Lenny gone,  and Assistant Chief Larry Juriga in prime position to take over the department, it seemed that the self-dubbed “Illuminati” would finally achieve their ultimate goal – the keys to the proverbial castle.

With key positions about to open up in the Executive Command Staff, Juriga & Co. had plans for spots to be filled by their own loyal team members who could be counted on to have each others’ backs at all times and maintain the blue wall of silence.

On June 16, 2016, their hopes were dashed when, instead of Juriga, City Manager Larry Spring made Eugene the NMPD’s top cop.  As soon as Eugene appointed non-“Illuminati” members to his Command Staff, Team Juriga immediately planned their coup d’état.

Much to their chagrin, six days after the NMPD’s swearing-in ceremony, Commander Rivera’s trigger happy SWAT Team member Jonathan Aledda shot an unarmed black man with his hands up.  In a really ill-timed PR moment, this incident quickly became the most infamous shooting in the department’s history.

But as fate would have it, Team Juriga saw a golden opportunity when they realized that Chief Eugene’s newly appointed Commander Emile Hollant showed up on the scene.  Taking advantage of the fact that Hollant had not yet been scheduled for the required training for his new position, they came up with the ultimate plot to take down both Eugene and Hollant.

The fact that they both happened to be Haitian, well, two birds, one stone.

Within a day of the incident, the blame was cast on Commander Hollant for the shooting because he had announced over the police radio that he believed the subject was loading his gun.  In an attempt to cover for the shooter, Larry Juriga and Angel Rivera concocted the story that Alleda fired his weapon on Hollant’s command.

When the police radio recordings revealed that before Aledda pulled the trigger, two other officers announced that the “gun” was actually a toy, they needed to come up with another reason to point the finger at Hollant.

Despite Hollant’s adamant insistence on the fact that he had gone to his car to get his binoculars at the moment the shots were fired, Team Juriga spun into action to prove that Hollant never left the scene, witnessed the actual shooting, and then lied about it.

Just how far were they willing to go to frame Hollant and complete their takeover of the police department?

Apparently, to any lengths possible.

They even tried to enlist the State Attorney’s Office to go along with their scheme.

Not only was that attempt an epic fail, Team Juriga only succeeded in pissing off the very agency that is intent on getting a manslaughter conviction against the one person they were desperately trying to protect from prosecution … Jonathan “Sharpshooter” Aledda.

Way to go, geniuses!

Let’s not forget that the State Attorney’s Office had cleared Commander Hollant of all wrongdoing on August 2, 2016, two days after Team Juriga attempted to have criminal charges filed against him.

Six months later, “North Miami Police investigators” had Internal Affairs Sergeant Diana Roman set up a meeting with Assistant State Attorneys Howard R. Rosen and Frank Ledee in order to “discuss the Emile Hollant Preliminary Inquiry” and “provide additional statements” in the hopes of having them re-open their investigation.

Despite that second attempt, the State Attorney’s Office reiterated its decision via email on April 5, 2017 that “the inquiry remained closed.”

In response to an apparent telephone call to Assistant State Attorney Howard R. Rosen, Sergeant Roman was rebuffed a final time when she asked the Assistant State Attorneys to “change the verbiage” of the SAO’s close out memo so that it would not state that “We conclude that Commander Hollant did not lie.”

ASA Rosen refused to consider her request and responded in an email, “This email will serve to confirm that upon reviewing the statements you provided, in conjunction with the statements we already had from both Commander Hollant and Chief Gary, our conclusion in this matter remains the same, and we are not going to be amending our Preliminary Inquiry Close-Out Memo.”

When that door slammed shut, Team Juriga had to go back to the drawing board.

Desperate to carry out their grand scheme while Chief Gary Eugene was on medical leave, Sergeant Diana Roman quickly wrapped up the Internal Affairs investigation.

The clearly “unbiased” Disposition Panel went to work trying to piece together a plausible enough reason to make the allegations against Hollant stick.

Literally cutting and pasting key phrases from a several witness statements, and rearranging them to suit the Team Juriga narrative, the Disposition Panel contrived to come up with what they thought was an airtight case against the Commander.

On the night before Chief Eugene was scheduled to return to work, they scrambled to have Major Annemarie Cardona and Commander Angelo Brinson deliver to Commander Hollant the Notice of Intent to Terminate and Right to Pre-Determination Hearing.

As far as Team Juriga must have been concerned, all was going according to plan.  However, as the Miami New Times already pointed out in North Miami’s Acting Chief Tries to Fire Cop He was Accused of Framing in Kinsey Shooting, the speed with which the IA investigation was hurriedly pushed through after spending “months trying to sort out the mess” is odd indeed.

Furthermore, as the article noted, “In light of the chief’s accusations that Juriga tried to frame Hollant, it’s curious the department would allow the assistant chief to dispose of the investigation” and then move to ax Hollant in a “finding today directly contradicts the State Attorney’s Office.”

Make no mistake, all these events were perfectly timed with clockwork precision.

Team Juriga thought they had the case against Hollant wrapped up with a big red bow.

Until … the Cuevas Memo unraveled their already tenuous hold on reality and pulled the rug out from under them.

As soon as we reported that Assistant Police Chief Neal Cuevas unequivocally proved that the Disposition Panel had absolutely no “preponderance of evidence” that Commander Hollant did anything wrong, and that city officials HID THE CUEVAS MEMO FROM THE PUBLIC, all hell broke loose.

Last night’s Oscar-winning performance Community Council Forum agenda, hastily scrambled together by North Miami city officials, was in direct response to their getting caught red handed for violating Sunshine Laws.

According to Florida Statute 119.017, General exemptions from inspection or copying of public records,  there are only a handful of very specific reasons that government agencies can keep information from being made public.

The list includes, but is not limited to, documents that are part of a public bidding process, criminal investigation, criminal or civil litigation, data processing licensing and trade secrets, active criminal intelligence and/or investigative information, information revealing surveillance techniques, information revealing the identity of a confidential informant or source, and any information revealing “highly sensitive personal information” of a victim of a crime, including the identity of a victim of child abuse or rape.

In any event, it certainly appears that the Cuevas Memo does not fall under any category of the general exemptions from public records according to Florida Statute 119.017.

In fact, at last night’s performance, when City Attorney Jeff Cazeau cockily declared (at hour 2:06 on the video) that they made everything available to the public (“It’s all on the website.”), an audience member raised the question, “How come you haven’t shared Assistant Chief Neal Cuevas’ Memorandum?”

Oh, boy!

Cazeau started the spin with, “The reason that memo hasn’t been put out is because it’s not officially part of our, um, it’s not part of any of this process.”

When the resident dared to interrupt, Cazeau became indignant!

“Ma’am, ma’am, PLEASE!  There is a process in all of this and we’ve been following the process through all of this.  The way this process works is once the internal affairs investigation is over, the internal affairs package goes to three officers who review it.  Once those three officers make their determination, that package then goes to the person’s supervisor.  In this case it would be Major Belcher.  It goes through the person’s chain of command.  In other words, whoever the highest person in the chain of command, they get the package, it goes down to the person to make their recommendation.  That’s the way it’s supposed to work.  The only person supposed to make that recommendation on that IA investigation is the direct supervisor.  That memo that you’re talking about is outside the Standard Operating Procedures.  It’s outside the Standard Operating Procedures, it’s not called for in any of the city’s processes.  So you can’t on one side say make this a process and follow the process, follow the process, and on the other side, someone just comes out and writes whatever they want to write … now here’s the thing.  Whether or not he has the right to do it, that … that’s … I’m not saying he has … he doesn’t have the right to make up whatever he wants to say … I mean the man’s been in … in … the force for a long time, he has his opinion.  But at the same time, that does not go in our procedure.  So that was not the forum for it.”

(Translation:  The “process” is more important than the truth!)

The resident tried to ask a question, when Jeff cut her off and exploded, “NO, HE WASN’T, MA’AM.  DID YOU READ ANYTHING?”

WHOA!

Dance, Jeff, dance!

He vainly attempted to apologize for his inappropriate outburst … and then accused her of lying and hijacking the meeting.

Oh, REALLY?

That’s not how apologies work, Jeff.

Just saying.

At that point, City Manager Larry Spring quickly shut down the meeting and sent everyone on their way.

His parting shot?

“We’re gonna continue being transparent.”

Um, as long as it doesn’t interfere with “procedure,” right?

With the help of Team Juriga, North Miami city officials have made it “transparently” clear that they are desperate to save face after they publicly slandered Commander Emile Hollant without any proof whatsoever that he lied.

Team Juriga will go to any length to stifle the truth.

Even if it means destroying the careers and lives of a newly appointed Police Commander and a Chief of Police with over 30 years of honorable service.

Both of whom just happen to be Haitian Americans.

If cops like Juriga & Co. are willing to go to such great lengths to cover their own asses by framing fellow law enforcement officers, how far would they go to destroy the lives of ordinary civilians?

Just asking.

But, wait.  There’s MORE!

In a four page memorandum distributed at last night’s Dog & Pony Show, City Manager Larry Spring attempted to justify his decision to fire Commander Hollant and Chief Eugene.  On the last page, he intimated that yet another investigation may be on the horizon.

Spring wrote, “Evidence suggests that the Chief may have colluded with one of the officers in question  to circumvent the internal affairs investigation.”

Hmmm…

Anyone wanna guess who he’s going after next?

How many more messengers will be “shot” for the crime of telling the truth?

Hey, Larry, Larry and Jeff … keep digging that hole.

While the rest of us keep popping that corn.

Stephanie

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City Ofisyèl North Miami: Se pou nou Tire tout mesye yo!

Wow.

Jis WOW!

Ki sa ki yon pèfòmans!

City Manadjè North Miami Larry Prentan, Asistan an Chèf Larry Juriga ak Pwokirè City Jeff Cazeau merite yon Ovasyon kanpe pou chen & korije Montre la yo mete yo sou yè swa nan mitan Kominote Griffing.

Se pou nou tout ba yo tout yon gwo wonn gwo nan aplodisman!

Lè VotersOpinion kase istwa a ki lavil ofisyèl te kache dokiman bay nou pa Chèf Polis Gary Eugene, ak laprès la te kòmanse extrusion alantou li, Larry, Larry ak Jeff te gen byen vit kouvri bourik yo.

Se konsa, yo grenpe moute nan yè swa nan Konsèy Forum Kominote yo eksplike tèt yo.

Paske transparans.

Oswa yon bagay.

Malerezman pou moun ki abite vil la, sèlman “transparan” mesaj la bay yè swa te ke North Miami se menm plis fin pouri pase nenpòt ki moun imajine.

Men, nou ap vin devan yo nan tèt nou. Se pou nou pran yon kèk etap retounen lakay yo epi rapèl.

Lè Gary Eugene te nonmen kòm Chèf Depatman Lapolis North Miami, ale te espere a pou pwomosyon nan yon ti ponyen nan flik vakabon ki te dezespereman pèch pou yon opòtinite pou avanse pou pi moute chèn manje an. Apre yo tout, ak Chèf Lenny ale, ak Asistan an Chèf Larry Juriga nan yon pozisyon pwemye pran sou depatman an, li te sanble ke pwòp tèt ou-ame “iluminati a” ta finalman reyalize objektif ultim yo – kle yo nan chato la provèrbyo.

Avèk pozisyon kle sou yo louvri moute nan lòd Anplwaye Egzekitif la, Juriga & Co. te gen plan pou tach yo dwe ranpli pa manm pwòp yo rete fidèl ekip ki moun ki ka dwe konte sou yo gen do chak lòt moun ‘nan tout tan epi kenbe miray ranpa a nan ble nan silans.

Sou, 16 jen 2016, espere ke yo te an tirè lè, olye pou yo Juriga, Vil Manadjè Larry Spring fè Eugene tèt jandam NMPD la. Le pli vit ke Eugene nonmen ki pa- “iluminati” manm yo anplwaye Kòmandman l ‘, Ekip Juriga imedyatman te planifye yo koudeta.

Anpil chagren yo, sis jou apre seremoni pwèstasyon sèman-an NMPD a, deklanche kòmandan Rivera nan kè kontan manm Ekip SWAT Jonatan Aledda tire yon nonm ki san zam nwa ak men l ‘yo. Nan yon moman vrèman malad-kwonometre PR, ensidan sa a byen vit te vin tire a pi trist nan istwa depatman an.

Men, jan sò ta genyen li, Ekip Juriga wè yon opòtinite an lò yo lè yo reyalize ke Chèf Eugene nan ki fèk nonmen kòmandan Emile Hollant te montre yo sou sèn nan. Pran avantaj de lefèt ke Hollant pa t ‘ankò te pwograme pou fòmasyon yo egzije pou pozisyon nouvo l’ yo, yo te vini ak trase a ultim yo pran desann tou de Eugene ak Hollant.

Lefèt ke yo tou de te rive yo dwe ayisyen an, byen, de zwazo, yon sèl wòch.

Nan yon jou nan ensidan an, yo te fòt la jete sou Kòmandan Hollant pou tire an paske li te anonse sou radyo a lapolis ke li te kwè sijè a te chaje zam l ‘yo. Nan yon tantativ yo kouvri pou tirè a, Larry Juriga ak zanj Rivera konkokte istwa a ki Alleda te tire zam li sou lòd Hollant la.

Lè anrejistreman yo radyo lapolis devwale ke anvan Aledda rale deklanche la, de lòt ofisye te anonse ke “zam nan” te aktyèlman yon jwèt, yo te bezwen vini ak yon lòt rezon nan pwen dwèt la nan Hollant.

Malgre ensistans detèmine Hollant a sou lefèt ke li te ale nan machin l ‘yo jwenn longvi l’ nan moman sa a vaksen yo te yo te tire, Ekip Juriga file nan aksyon a pwouve ke Hollant pa janm kite sèn nan, temwen tire aktyèl la, ak Lè sa a bay manti sou li .

Jis ki jan lwen yo te yo vle pou yo ale nan ankadreman Hollant epi konplete kontwòl yo nan depatman lapolis?

Aparamman, nan nenpòt longè posib.

Yo menm yo te eseye angaje Biwo Avoka Eta a yo ale ansanm ak konplo yo.

Se pa sèlman te ke tantativ yon sezon echwe, Ekip Juriga sèlman plas nan pissing nan ajans la trè ki se entansyon sou jwenn yon kondanasyon omisid envolontè kont moun nan yon sèl yo te dezespereman ap eseye pwoteje soti nan pouswit jidisyè … Jonatan “Buteur” Aledda.

Way ki nan ale, jeni!

Se pou yo pa bliye ke te Biwo Pwokirè a Eta a otorize kòmandan Hollant nan tout mechanste sou Out 2, 2016, de jou apre Ekip Juriga eseye gen akizasyon kriminèl ki fét kont l ‘.

Sis mwa pita, “envestigatè Lapolis North Miami” te gen zafè entèn Sèjan Diana Women mete kanpe yon reyinyon ak Asistan Eta Avoka Howard R. Rosen ak Frank Ledee nan lòd yo “diskite sou Emile Hollant Preliminè ankèt la” ak “bay deklarasyon adisyonèl” nan la espwa ke yo fè yo re-louvri ankèt yo.

Malgre ke tantativ dezyèm lan, Biwo Avoka Eta a repete desizyon li pran an via imel sou 5 avril, 2017 ke “ankèt la rete fèmen.”

An repons a yon apèl telefòn aparan nan Pwokirè Eta Asistan Howard R. Rosen, Sèjan Women te rebuffed yon tan final lè li te mande Avoka nan Asistan Eta a “chanje vèrbyaj a” nan SAO a fèmen soti memo konsa ke li pa t ‘vle deklare ke ” nou konkli ke kòmandan Hollant pa t ‘bay manti.”

ASA Rosen refize konsidere demann li yo ak reponn nan yon imèl, “kouryèll sa a pral sèvi nan konfime ke sou revize deklarasyon sa yo ou bay, an konjonksyon avèk deklarasyon sa yo nou te deja gen soti nan tou de Hollant kòmandan ak Chèf Gary, konklizyon nou an nan zafè sa a rete menm bagay la tou, epi nou pa yo ale nan dwe modifier nou an Preliminè ankèt Inquiry Close-Sòti Memo. “

Lè te kriye byen fò ke pòt fèmen, Ekip Juriga te gen pou tounen nan tablo a desen.

Desperate pote soti nan konplo Grand yo pandan y ap Chèf Gary Eugene te sou konje medikal, Sèjan Diana Women byen vit vlope moute ankèt la Zafè Entèn.

klèman “san patipri” Dispozisyon panèl la te ale travay ap eseye mete ansanm yon posib ase rezon ki fè nou fè akizasyon yo kont baton Hollant.

Literalman koupe ak kole fraz kle ki sòti nan yon deklarasyon temwen plizyè, ak ranplase yo kostim naratif la Ekip Juriga, panèl la Dispozisyon parvenus vini ak sa yo te panse te yon ka ki byen fèmen kont kòmandan an.

Sou nwit lan la anvan Chèf Eugene te pwograme pou retounen nan travay, yo grenpe moute gen Gwo Annemarie Cardona ak kòmandan Angelo Brinson delivre nan kòmandan Hollant Avi sou entansyon mete fen ak Dwa a Pre-Detèminasyon Odyans.

Osi lwen ke Ekip Juriga dwe te konsène yo, tout te ale selon plan. Men tou, kòm New Times la Miami deja vize deyò nan Chèf Enterimè North Miami nan Eseye nan dife jandam li te akize de Ankadre nan Kinsey Fiziyad, vitès la ak ki ankèt la IA te kouri pouse nan apre depans “mwa ap eseye sòt deyò dezòd la” se yon nonm enpè tout bon.

Anplis de sa, jan atik la te note, “Nan limyè de akizasyon chèf la a ki Juriga te eseye ankadreman Hollant, li nan kirye depatman an ta pèmèt chèf nan asistan a jete tout fatra ki ankèt la” ak Lè sa deplase li nan yon rach Hollant nan yon “jwenn jodi a dirèkteman lekontrer nan Biwo Pwokirè eta a. “

Pa fè okenn erè, tout evènman sa yo yo te parfe kwonometre ak mekanism presizyon.

Ekip Juriga te panse yo te gen ka a kont Hollant vlope moute ak yon banza gwo wouj.

Jiska … Memo nan Cuevas unraveled kenbe deja fragiles yo sou reyalite, yo rale tapi a soti nan anba yo.

Le pli vit ke nou rapòte ke Asistan Chèf Polis Neal Cuevas Kellerman pwouve ke panèl la Dispozisyon te gen absoliman pa gen okenn “predominans prèv” ki kòmandan Hollant te fè anyen ki mal, ak Lè sa HID memo an CUEVAS nan men piblik la, tout lanfè kase ki lach.

Oscar-genyen pèfòmans Kominote Konsèy Forum ajanda Yè swa an, prese grenpe moute ansanm pa lavil ofisyèl North Miami, te an repons dirèk a yo resevwa kenbe wouj men pou vyolasyon Sunshine Lwa.

Dapre Lwa Florid 119,017, egzanpsyon Jeneral soti nan enspeksyon oswa kopye nan dosye piblik, te gen sèlman yon ti ponyen nan rezon trè espesifik ki ajans gouvènman ka kenbe enfòmasyon ki soti nan ke yo te fè piblik la.

Lis la gen ladan, men se pa sa sèlman, dokiman ki se yon pati nan yon pwosesis òf piblik, ankèt kriminèl, litij kriminèl oswa sivil, done pwosesis lisans ak sekrè komès, aktif entèlijans kriminèl ak / oswa enfòmasyon ankèt, enfòmasyon revele teknik siveyans, enfòmasyon revele idantite moun ki te yon informateur konfidansyèl oswa sous, ak nenpòt enfòmasyon revele “enfòmasyon trè sansib pèsonèl” nan yon viktim nan yon krim, ki gen ladan idantite moun ki te yon viktim abi timoun oswa kadejak.

Nan nenpòt evenman, li sètènman sanble ke Memo nan Cuevas pa tonbe anba nenpòt ki kategori nan egzanpsyon jeneral yo soti nan dosye piblik dapre Lwa Florid 119,017.

An reyalite, nan pèfòmans yè swa a, lè Pwokirè City Jeff Cazeau cockily deklare (nan èdtan 2:06 sou videyo a) ke yo fè tout bagay disponib a piblik la ( “Li nan tout sou sit entènèt la.”), Yon manm odyans leve soti vivan kesyon an , “Kouman vini ou pa te pataje Memorandòm Asistan an Chèf Neal Cuevas ‘?”

Oh, ti gason!